Fostering Systems Change
Five simple rules for foundations seeking to create lasting social change.
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Show Me the Money
It’s time for more foundations and philanthropists to make $10 million plus grants to social change organizations.
Lessons from the Moore Foundation’s Largest and Longest Grants
In 2002 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation made two long-term mega-grants—one to CalTech for $300 million and the other to Conservation International for $395 million.
Making Big Bets for Social Change
How to close the gap between what donors say they want to achieve and where they actually put their money.
Leveraging Lean Data
Supplements to the article “The Power of Lean Data.”
The Power of Lean Data
A series of recent projects that incorporate lean design principles show that it’s possible to gather high-quality impact data quickly and inexpensively. Includes magazine extras.
Money for Nothing?
In the Netherlands, a modest experiment in welfare policy taps into a very big idea: universal basic income.
Mentoring Meets Its Match
RippleWorks helps entrepreneurs in the developing world tap the expertise of executives and engineers from Silicon Valley.
Muni Bonds for All
An online platform for “microbonds” promises to make it easier for people to invest public works projects.
Revitalizing a Village
A community in rural Vietnam has become the site of a project that seeks to export a successful South Korean development model.