A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
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Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Microinsurance: Scaling Through Peer Learning
Insurers in Peru and South Africa are learning from each other how to reach low-income clients and help break the cycle of poverty.
Investing Evolves
A brief history of investing that advances environmental and social concerns, and why impact investors and sustainable investors should look to what they have in common, not how they differ.
The Promise of Mandatory Community Service
How a little-known tradition that helped rebuild Rwanda could help the rest of us.
Lights, Camera, Philanthropy
A close-up on giving and the entertainment industry.
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Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
Deepening Community explores four aspects of creating a meaningful community in a modern world.
Collaboration and “Diffuse Reciprocity”
A new attitude toward collaboration could help funders achieve greater long-term gains.
To Reach Transformative Scale, Transform the Conversation
Scaling impact is much bigger than scaling an enterprise.
A New Study of Collective Impact Efforts
With Wallace Foundation backing, Columbia University’s Teachers College sets out to learn from past initiatives, document current ones, and find answers to complex questions.
Putting Community in Collective Impact
Five characteristics of civic culture that collective impact efforts must address.