Funders Fundraising: A New Philanthropic Trend
More and more funders are adding a feature to their strategy: explicitly soliciting funding from their peers to amplify their own work.
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What Could Go Wrong?
An excerpt from Assembling Tomorrow on looking at the unintended consequence of what you create.
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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us
Being in business means having a social impact. To build a flourishing nation for all people, we need businesses to take a leadership role.
Plan C for Greening Business
Engaging directly with business was never the environmental movement’s first choice—and for good reason.
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We Need to Diversify Our Innovation Portfolio
An excerpt from Behind the Startup on how venture capital investors set the agenda for innovation
Big Bets for the Long Haul
How to help big bet philanthropy lead to even bigger social change down the road
Where Strategic Philanthropy Went Wrong
Dramatic advances in the scale and sophistication of strategic philanthropy have not improved societal conditions at a national level. We propose empowerment philanthropy as a new approach to fostering political and economic self-determination by supporting people in finding their own solutions and ensuring an effective multiracial democracy.
Effective Government Demands Partnership
From climate change to national security threats, the problems we face in the world are too big for government to solve alone. Public-private partnerships demonstrate how government can collaborate with the private sector to catalyze and scale innovation.
Revitalize Parks to Strengthen Democracy
The Trust for Public Land developed a framework to build community power through the creation and stewardship of green spaces. Our work demonstrates the power of parks to enrich democracy. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Trust for Public Land.
Drone Sisters
A new government program in India is training women to become agricultural drone pilots to increase their financial security and modernize farming.