The Embedded Enterprise
To reach base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurs need to align their business models with customers’ lives.
Sectors - Articles
Adventures in Adaptation
One funder’s willingness to shift course strategically has been crucial to sustaining a decade-long education initiative.
School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.
Training in Progress
A program at Credit Suisse helps high-level employees—and valued clients—to master the art of nonprofit board service.
Sharing the Stage
The example of venture philanthropy in Europe shows how old and new forms of practice can coexist.
Review
Uncertain Legacy
Can the history of a century-old foundation amount to more than the sum of its grants?
Redefining Disaster, Preparedness, and Resilience
As the nature, frequency, and scale of disasters grows, the philanthropic sector needs to shift its focus to preparedness through a shared sense of urgency and a commitment to improving data infrastructure.
Solution Markets for Justice Reform
By demonstrating shared responsibility and accountability for outcomes that address injustice on a broad scale, justice institutions can help create an open economy for solutions to big, justice-related problems.
From Blur to Precision
A recent convening highlighted progress on setting a “fourth sector” agenda.
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The Resilience Dividend
In The Resilience Dividend, Judith Rodin addresses how individuals, communities, and organizations have built resilience in the aftermath of disasters, and why resilience is an urgent socio-economic issue.