What Foundations Can Do to Address Inequality
Stanford's Rob Reich moderates a panel with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and Craig Newmark of Craigslist.
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Millennials and Hybrid Legal Structures Are Here to Stay
While the connection between Millennials and hybrid legal structures isn’t obvious, these two forces of social innovation share common history, values, and futures.
Why Rewarding Leaders Might Hurt Collaboration
It’s time for the nonprofit sector to create new models for recognizing individual leaders without compromising the collective efforts, movements, and environment of inclusion that they are trying to build.
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.
Governance: The Secret to Mission-Driven Business Success
New research reveals a cross-sector trend that sees organizations using governance to strengthen extra-financial performance.
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Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
Drawing on extensive field research and surveys, Lasker suggests several ways to make international health volunteering more effective.
Supporting a Truly Participant-Centered Approach to Development
Resistance to unconditional cash transfers may be less about their effectiveness and applicability as a participant-focused programmatic strategy, and more about the development community’s vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0
Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.
Rewriting the Future: A Latino Prosperity Movement
Latino philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and technology innovators are establishing important building blocks for the creation and strategic deployment of Latino wealth.
Entrepreneurship Upside Down: What If You Start With What You Have?
Takeaways from a municipal prize competition.