Searching for Impact
How search funds, a little-known private equity investment vehicle, can become a useful tool for impact investing.
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The Urgency to Fund Early-stage Social Entrepreneurs
Why early-stage entrepreneurs are essential building blocks for profound social change—and why they need greater investment.
The Unexamined Algorithm Is Not Worth Using
Why nonprofits need to evaluate the ethics of their algorithms.
Addicted to Bad News
Don’t indulge. It can drain the joy right out of the work.
Spotting the Patterns: 2017 Trends in Design Thinking
Creative leaders and innovators are thinking about design thinking in more mature ways. Moving away from a sole emphasis on language and learning, they are increasingly focusing on questions of application, ownership, and impact.
Talking About Ethics in Impact Investing
To make the best and most consistent decisions, impact investors need to think about values as much as they think about growth and financial returns.
The Denominator Mind-set for Scaling Social Change
How do India’s social innovators extend their reach to many constituents? They focus on the entire problem and adapt as they confront it.
A Force for Equity in Parent Engagement
How an educational access collaborative evolved to give parents more say in creating educational opportunities for their children and help expand opportunities for first-generation students.
The Next Phase of Innovative Financing
Why pay-for-success models of humanitarian impact investing offer promise for the future.
From “Lean Start-Up” to “Lean Collaboration”
How to reframe government adoption of social innovations.