There is no rigid recipe for scaling quality learning, but successful efforts require attention to design and delivery, stable access to finance, and an enabling policy environment.
The Compact for Responsible Business Leadership signed at this year’s World Economic Forum is an important step forward for corporations operating in a global society, but it needs reworking if it is to truly foster long-term societal value.
How can monitoring, evaluation, and learning become even more powerful tools for social sector leaders?
Foundations have an important role to play in impact investing—in building platforms and products that efficiently mobilize capital, mitigate risk, and improve liquidity.
How organizations in the development sector can more systematically consider the implications of the environments in which they work.
Better defining social entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa can help drive policy dialogue, create useful legal frameworks, and facilitate the financing and support services social enterprises in the region need to succeed.
We need to double down on the gritty business of impact. Here’s how.
To make progress on ideologically or politically sticky issues, social sector organizations must reshape their messaging to do more than cite facts; they must use smart storytelling and craft solutions that don’t require those they want to reach to sacrifice their values.
More and more businesses are pioneering new ventures that create both commercial and social returns, and the Caribbean is well positioned to show what is possible when leaders tap into business as a force for good.
The changing US political playground requires that foundations both focus on what works and actively explore what might work in uncertain times ahead.
