Sunny Days for Microfinance
I think the current moment is the beginning of the golden years for microfinance.
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I Gain and You Gain: The Emergence of “Smart Power” Strategies in the Nonprofit Sector
How can we work together in the nonprofit sector to produce results that we can all benefit from?
Transforming Cities
Archaic ideas and the fundamental restructuring taking place in our economy, makes business as usual unacceptable.
An Uneven Partnership
Will Tuesday’s election change government’s relationship to the nonprofit sector?
A Sobering Assessment of Microfinance’s Impact
At a conference last week of leaders in microfinance, attendees focused on the nitty-gritty of the social impact of microlending, and the results of the discussions were both sobering and startling.
Machine Politics
The information systems we're building are starting to get better at taking input from crowds and using it to help us mine data for what we will most likely want or need.
Social Innovations
A Look at “I Live in the Future and Here’s How It Works” by Nick Bilton
Insight into the malleability of data, and the need for stories and filters, are as relevant to those in philanthropy as they are to car salesmen, reporters, film makers, and fiction writers.
Cause Marketing Does More Harm Than Good
I believe that cause marketing programs erode the joy of giving, turn consumers into cynics, and contribute to the overall loss of faith and trust in the nonprofit sector.
A Toolbox for Change: the Social Capital Markets Conference
Instead of the profit/nonprofit distinction, individuals should ask themselves: Who is the target beneficiary and what are the best products/services that can be provided?