Lessons from the Moore Foundation’s Largest and Longest Grants
In 2002 the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation made two long-term mega-grants—one to CalTech for $300 million and the other to Conservation International for $395 million.
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Making Big Bets for Social Change
How to close the gap between what donors say they want to achieve and where they actually put their money.
Leveraging Lean Data
Supplements to the article “The Power of Lean Data.”
The Power of Lean Data
A series of recent projects that incorporate lean design principles show that it’s possible to gather high-quality impact data quickly and inexpensively. Includes magazine extras.
Leading Change Through Adaptive Design
By integrating two practices—design thinking and adaptive leadership—social innovators can manage projects in a way that’s both creatively confident and relentlessly realistic.
Mentoring Meets Its Match
RippleWorks helps entrepreneurs in the developing world tap the expertise of executives and engineers from Silicon Valley.
Muni Bonds for All
An online platform for “microbonds” promises to make it easier for people to invest public works projects.
Revitalizing a Village
A community in rural Vietnam has become the site of a project that seeks to export a successful South Korean development model.
Civil Rights Goes Digital
In both online and offline venues, activists at Color of Change are pursuing the fight for racial justice at Internet speed.
Harvesting Lessons
A social enterprise that served farmers in Kenya had to close down, but it yielded a healthy crop of insights about failure.