Time to Reboot Grantmaking
Social sector organizations need a “healthy diet” of funding to achieve maximum impact, a concept neatly captured by the Grantmaking Pyramid now used by the Ford Foundation.
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Learning How to Listen to Beneficiaries
Valerie Threlfall of the Fund For Shared Insight, Krystle Onibukon of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, and Brad Dunning of the Center for Employment Opportunities talk about building quality feedback loops.
Can We Sustain It?
How to transform the fervor of political resistance into a new era of civic engagement.
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Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Software For Good
What can social sector organizations learn from large companies about using data to maximize impact?
The Next Wave in Fundraising Collaboration
Three considerations for nonprofits looking to work together to raise funds.
More Girls in STEM Means Improving STEM Teacher Training
Providing teachers with gender sensitivity training is a first step toward addressing gender inequality in STEM. But it’s not the last.
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
How companies in industries such as pharmaceuticals are starting to learn that by giving more data away, they actually get more back.
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Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Causal Inference Meets Big Data
Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, discusses methods of big data analysis that can indicate not just correlation but also causality.
Down the Rabbit Hole? Impact Investing and Large Foundations
Impact investing makes sense in theory, but there are good reasons, particularly for large foundations, to pause before putting a lot of resources into it.
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The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur
In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.