Charting New Pathways Out of Poverty
If we’re going to help poor families gain agency, dignity, and mobility, we need poverty measurements that point the way to a decent standard of living.
Solutions - Articles
The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Development Challenge
Do international development projects designed and managed at the grassroots level perform better than those managed from the outside?
Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?
How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.
Community Voices for Social Good
We need a more systemic and accessible way for underserved individuals to share their beliefs, insights, and experiences directly with policymakers, nonprofits, and their own communities.
Belief-based Social Innovation: Gender-Lens’ Next Frontier
The gender-lens movement is beginning to fund culturally led efforts to transform underlying beliefs that systematically disempower females in the first place.
Ending HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Sector Responsibility
The private sector has an important role to play in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and improving health systems as a whole.
Imagine a World of Good Data
Unless we prioritize government collection, analysis, and distribution of data, public officials will continue to make decisions with limited facts, and citizens will get poorer services from the government than from the private sector.
In Development Work, Plan for Sailboats, Not Trains
Much of the international development community remains stuck in its old ways, focused on short time horizons, rigid planning, and unproductive evaluation.
To Boost Individual Donor Giving, Nonprofits Need a Plan
A new report shows that creating a fundraising plan is paramount for organizations looking to increase individual donor gifts.
Looking Beyond Impact Investing to Support Climate Solutions
A four-point framework for funders to advance a low-carbon future using their entire endowment.