Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing
Why investors need to integrate rights and accountability into development finance, and how they can begin.
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How Can We “Leapfrog” Educational Outcomes?
Innovations will need to address inequity and embrace a broader range of skills than most schools currently teach.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
The Future of Social Impact Education in Business Schools and Beyond
This series, produced in partnership with Oxford’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, will share global perspectives about potential shifts in social impact education.
What Lessons Does “Brexit” Hold for Social Innovators Worldwide?
Social innovators have a lot to learn from situations where they and their target beneficiaries vote on opposite sides.
Innovation Labs: 10 Defining Features
A closer look at what characterizes an innovation lab can help practitioners, funders, and scholars better understand what labs’ potential and limits might be, as well as better assess the social impact that comes out of the them.
Actionable Measurement: Getting from “Prove” to “Improve”
There’s a set of common questions every direct-service nonprofit should answer to maximize learning, action, and impact.
Five Myths that Perpetuate Burnout Across Nonprofits
There is a pervasive fear in the nonprofit field that focusing inwardly—on our staff, our leadership, even our own salaries—will take away from achieving our organizational missions. That needs to change.
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Book Launch of “Philanthropy in Democratic Societies”
Stanford's Lucy Bernholz, Paul Brest, Woody Powell, and Rob Reich, along with Leif Wenar of King's College London, discuss their new volume of essays.
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Interviews
Three Questions With Dean Karlan
Yale economics professor Karlan talks with SSIR's Michael Slind about how to fight poverty and advance economic inclusion.