Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
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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.
In Search of the Hybrid Ideal
Researchers examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face.
Local Forces for Good
The authors of the influential book Forces for Good examine how their framework for creating high-impact nonprofits applies to local and smaller organizations.
Get Feedback
It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
Risky Business
How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.
A Big Deal for Conservation
A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
Realigning Health with Care
The misalignment between the expansive goal of “health” and a cramped definition of “care” has cost the United States untold lives and treasure. Yet realignment is in reach.