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Framing the Issue
Basic principles and practices can inform efforts to monitor performance, track progress, and assess the impact of foundation strategies, initiatives, and grants.
Sectors - Articles
Virtual Models for Real Issues
Agent-based modeling—a form of computer visualization—is being used to analyze a range of public health issues.
Delivering the Goods
Entrepreneurs are setting up shop in the nation's urban food deserts.
Review
Sustainability and Self-Interest
John Elkington argues in his latest book that a new set of entrepreneurs in business, government, and universities are reinventing capitalism.
Review
The Emerging Market Era
A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.
A Focus on Culture
How the Ford Foundation is engaging its global staff in building a shared culture of results.
Managing Technology for Social Change
There is a great deal of untapped potential in consistently applying existing technologies to support, and in fact, direct social change.
Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
Shared Outcomes
How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.