Five Ways to Move from Strategic to Adaptive Philanthropy
Many philanthropists know they need to adapt their strategies in changing times—the question is where to anchor and what to flex.
Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
Lessons in Mass Collaboration
Recent experience with government-convened hackathons has generated insights into the methods and instruments used to design effective mass collaboration efforts.
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The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges
In The Social Labs Revolution, Zaid Hassan argues in favor of an experimental, rather than a planning-based, approach to today's challenges.
The Road to Scale Runs Through Improved Donor Strategies
Less donor fragmentation can lead to impact at a transformative scale.
Good Show
Presenting content with a social message is the focus of a recently launched movie-streaming company.
Franchising a “Fireball”
Aflatoun, a global social and financial education program, is relying on partnerships rather than centralized control to scale up.
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A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
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.