How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Philanthropists should create collaborative relationships with grantees that cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation.
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Using Data for Action and for Impact
How nonprofits and social businesses can use data to inform decision-making and evaluate performance.
The Future of Prize Philanthropy
In more and more cases, prize competitions provide recipients with resources to pursue their work even before they complete a proposed project.
There Is No Such Thing as a Green Product
Touting products like LEDs and recycled plastic packaging as “green” is misleading, because it fails to account for their effects on markets and consumer behavior and for the resulting environmental consequences. The authors offer what they say is a better approach: measuring the overall "net green" impact of the product.
Community Engagement Matters (Now More Than Ever)
In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.
New Approaches to Ed-Tech Funding
Until recently, both foundations and venture capital firms were wary of directing resources toward education technology startups. Here’s how “blended capital” is expanding the ed-tech field.
The Risky Rhetoric of Female Risk Aversion
Women are seen as less likely to engage in risky behavior and more likely to use money prudently. But this stereotype can lead to discrimination against women.
Making Big Bets for Social Change
How to close the gap between what donors say they want to achieve and where they actually put their money.
The Power of Lean Data
A series of recent projects that incorporate lean design principles show that it’s possible to gather high-quality impact data quickly and inexpensively. Includes magazine extras.
The Emergence of Subversive Charities in China
A new type of charity has emerged in China that is able to sidestep some of the controls that the government places on NGOs.