Urban Development
A Strategy for Alleviating Poverty
Why there is a renewed sense of urgency and optimism about place-based initiatives.
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Foundations
Supporting Nonprofit Leadership: A Pre-Flight Briefing
Three tips to help foundations supporting leadership development prepare for a successful journey.
Philanthropy
Philanthropy’s New Release
Reflections on the changing philanthropic landscape in Silicon Valley.
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Technology & Design
Jobs for Disconnected Youth and Talent for Suppliers
Insights from an innovation lab dedicated to bridging the talent divide.
Philanthropy
Second Curve Philanthropy
New research reveals a large gap between the world of organized philanthropy and today’s world of social action.
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Energy
Cheap and Clean
Cheap and Clean explores how, more than anything else, beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with certain fuels drive opinions about energy and climate change policy.
Health
The Mantra of Delivery
Four lessons for scaling social impact that arose from curing children’s diarrhea in Bangladesh in the 1980s.
Measuring Social Impact
Signaling and Confirming
A new framework can help nonprofits and other social sector organizations measure the participation of their supporters.
Economic Development
Fostering the Creative Economy
The creative industries—those at the crossroads of arts, culture, business, and technology—can offer an economic jump-start for recovering economies.