Fast Food and the Family Farm
It’s time to reform how we grow food and what we have for dinner, says Bruce Boyd, principal and managing director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors.
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The BOP Beckons
Why grassroots design will determine the winners in developing markets.
MBAs Gone Wild
Nonprofits must reign in pro bono MBAs.
Innovating the White House
How the next president of the United States can spur social entrepreneurship.
Failing Well
Foundations need to make more of the right kinds of mistakes.
Evaluation Blues
How accountability requirements hurt small, innovative programs the most.
Worst Practices of a Social Entrepreneur
You can learn more from your mistakes than from your successes. Paul Schmitz, president and CEO of Public Allies, gives a sampling of classic foibles of not only social entrepreneurs, but leaders in general.
Portfolio Philanthropy
To ensure that baby boomers' wealth does not fall short of its philanthropic potential, Randall Ottinger suggests applying portfolio theory to make wiser social investments.
Oil in Troubled Water
To enrich Africa, oil companies and NGOs must cooperate.
Robbing the Grandchildren
Human-caused climate change, sharply declining conventional energy sources, and population growth are threatening the very platform of human life. Yet only 5 percent of U.S. foundation spending goes to the environment, and a paltry 2.9 percent goes to science and technology.