What Charity Navigator Gets Wrong About Effective Altruism
Why we can and must try to answer the question: What charities do the most good?
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Measuring Backbone Contributions to Collective Impact
Part two in a series on how backbone organizations shape the work of collective impact without formal authority.
Exerting Influence Without Formal Authority
Part one of a two-part series on how backbone organizations shape the work of collective impact without formal authority.
Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy
Nancy Roob shares how the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.
Bringing Social Impact Bonds to the Environment
Is the social impact bond model better suited to environmental issues?
Grantees as Customers
Four ways funders can serve and empower grantees.
The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism
The superficially enticing “logic” of effective altruism ultimately leads to a moralistic, hyper-rationalistic, top-down approach to philanthropy that can kill the very altruistic spirit it claims to foster.
Disrupting Corporate Philanthropy
Three best moves and three biggest lessons—Marc Benioff reflects on more than a decade of work at the Salesforce.com Foundation.
Designing a Learning Organization
How organizations can use design to better implement, share, and expand on knowledge.
Inventing and Reinventing a Philanthropy Model in India
Deval Sanghavi, head of the venture philanthropy fund Dasra, describes his work testing and building new platforms for giving in India.