Mobile Operators: White Knights of Financial Inclusion?
Two issues are dogging existing mobile money systems: excessive system downtime and lack of interconnection.
Solutions - Articles
Five Levers for Social Change: Part 5
Practical Advice Series: Five basic “levers,” or strategies, to help businesses or nonprofits achieve social change.
Tension and Possibility: The New Dynamics of Change
Reflections on Ashoka’s Change Nation event in Dublin.
Shared Space Strategies: An Interview with China Brotsky
Q&A with a visionary leader in the national shared spaces movement.
The Power and Price of Kony-like Campaigns
Personal relationship building and donor development is critical to the longevity of organizations.
Social Entrepreneurs Must Stop Throwing Starfish
Too often we engage in linear, simplistic solutions, when lasting change requires collaborative efforts.
Three Steps to More Informed Giving
What we in the philanthropic sector can do to increase informed giving by donors?
“Kony 2012” and Our Capacity to Evaluate Public Charities
The general public and even the media, by and large, simply don’t have the experience, training, or tools to fully evaluate charities’ activities.
Philanthropy’s New Bottom Line: A More Sustainable Capitalism
It’s time to look at investment and social-ecological resilience—not just as philanthropists and impact investors but as a species.