Techno-Optimists Beware
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.
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A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
The End of Polio in India
An immense cross-sector partnership is responsible for the immunization success story.
Leveraging Research for China
The Rural Education Action Project uses its studies about China’s poorest places to influence government policy.
Managing Technology for Social Change
There is a great deal of untapped potential in consistently applying existing technologies to support, and in fact, direct social change.
Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
Shared Outcomes
How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.
In Search of the Hybrid Ideal
Researchers examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face.
Local Forces for Good
The authors of the influential book Forces for Good examine how their framework for creating high-impact nonprofits applies to local and smaller organizations.