CauseFests: Philanthropy’s New Marketplace
A report from the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative and Social Good Summit—the trading floors of the new philanthrocapitalism.
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Big Bang Philanthropy
How one group of funders gets the most for the poverty-fighting buck.
What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?
We need to broaden philanthropy’s view of social sciences.
Dump the Prizes
Contests, challenges, awards—they do more harm than good. Let’s get rid of them.
A Lab of Labs
A report from Lab2, and why learning to reflect on our assumptions about how change happens has value, whether or not “lab” is in your title.
The Quest for Scale
An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.
By Youth, for Youth
Through the Global Changemakers program, people under the age of 25 are developing solutions to problems that directly affect them.
Sponsoring Hope
A properly designed sponsor-a-child program can have real, long-term impact on the life course of its beneficiaries.
Good (and Not-So-Good) Neighbors
Major local events, with some notable exceptions, spur locally based companies to increase charitable giving.
Poverty’s New Home
Poverty is growing in US suburbs, but for service providers, does it matter where the poor live?