Competing Principles
Race to the Top, a $4 billion US education reform effort, produced valuable lessons on designing a competition-based program.
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Foreign Disentanglement
To counter restrictions on NGO activity, local groups need to reduce their dependence on international financial support.
The Gift of Time
Careful product design enabled Days for Girls to create a solution that empowers its users at a critical stage of their lives. Includes magazine extras.
Lifting Up Day Labor
A social enterprise called In Every Story brings better pay—and a spirit of empathy—to a highly marginalized workforce.
Alignment Is Not a Luxury
To pursue its environmental mission, Tiffany & Co. balances corporate leadership with traditional philanthropic grantmaking.
Zone of Impact
A school-based collective impact project in West Dallas, Texas, is yielding lessons on how to compile and use big data.
Who’s Afraid of DAFs?
Critics of donor-advised funds miss the real story of why they have grown so fast, argues a longtime community foundation leader.
The Embedded Enterprise
To reach base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurs need to align their business models with customers’ lives.
Adventures in Adaptation
One funder’s willingness to shift course strategically has been crucial to sustaining a decade-long education initiative.
School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.