Creating an Innovation Revolution
Lenny Mendonca discusses the role the federal budget plays in helping or hindering research, development, and private innovation.
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Impact Investing - Articles
Socially responsible investing that produces triple bottom line results (more)
Between Innovation and Development
An interview with Aleem Walji, practice manager for innovation at the World Bank Institute.
Skoll 2011 Interviews: Rod Schwartz, Lars Johansen, and Biju Mohandas
Interview with Rod Schwartz, founder of ClearlySo, a company that helps entrepreneurs with raising capital, team building, product sales, and financial management.
Impact Market Failure
It comes down to this: We’re all operating in a dysfunctional market for impact.
A Toniic for Start-Ups
Impact Investors at Toniic aim to create an ecosystem for investing in social entrepreneurs that mirrors the Silicon Valley way of doing deals.
Market-Minded Development
Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It's approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?
Philanthropy’s Buzzwords of the Decade
The 10 phrases I have chosen to show the steady rise in market-based solutions for social problem solving, technology’s infiltration of all things fund raising, and a shift in attention from local to global.
Ten for Ten: Philanthropy from 2010-2020
Rather than focus in (anymore than the buzzwords list already does) on the top 10 of the year gone by, let’s think about the factors that will shape philanthropy for the decade ahead.
Sell the Wind
What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.
Grassroots Concrete
Build Change is shaking up construction practices in earthquake-prone areas.