Measuring Impact Isn’t for Everyone
Collecting data to demonstrate your organization’s impact is great to do when you should, wasteful when you should not.
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Experimentation: A Shortcut to Innovation
Leading organizations are placing bets on action over rhetoric.
Social Sabbaticals and the New Face of Leadership
A look at SAP’s corporate initiatives to develop new talent for work in emerging markets.
GiveThoughtfully: It Depends on Your Point of View
Bringing a discussion of cash transfers in for a landing.
Social Entrepreneurship
Beyond Outrage: Using Dilemmas to Spur Change
Social entrepreneurs lead the way out of polarization through invention.
A Sharing Economy Cliffhanger: What Will Governments Do?
Earlier this month, a group backed by companies including Airbnb and Taskrabbit began urging users to petition for changes in regulation—will politicians uphold the rules or loosen them? Or is there is a third option?
Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.
Philanthropy
Grantmaking, Public Policy…and Tums
Exemplary grantmakers follow evidence, not presumptions, and recognize that effective strategy requires transforming enough things, not everything.
Beyond Aid
As leaders across sectors convene to discuss the new global agenda, the opportunity to collaborate on a new breed of large-scale development projects known as innovative financing has never been brighter.