The Failures of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and How Philanthropy Can Fix Them
Philanthropy needs to support climate justice, undercut the power of the fossil fuel industry, beware false solutions, and support clean energy.
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New and innovative ideas to help nonprofit leaders raise money, and to help funders and donors give more effectively (more)
How Individual Donors Can Help Build Movements
It’s difficult to know how—and where—to engage in risky work that may not yield results for a long time. Three lessons can help.
A Different Spin on a Market-Based Approach
Even foundations that don’t have an impact investment program can catalyze market-based social innovations by getting creative with how they structure their grants.
Click, Click, Give
Five ways nonprofits can start unlocking trillions of dollars in potential donations from younger individual donors.
Breaking Free from the Tribe: Why Philanthropy Needs to Invest in Bridge Builders
An often missing but critical part of achieving social change is supporting individuals who can make connections outside of a field of advocacy or practice.
The Top-Down, Bottom-Up Development Challenge
Do international development projects designed and managed at the grassroots level perform better than those managed from the outside?
Does Your Backbone Organization Have Backbone?
How collective impact efforts—done right—can break through a systemic barrier to nonprofit collaboration.
Belief-based Social Innovation: Gender-Lens’ Next Frontier
The gender-lens movement is beginning to fund culturally led efforts to transform underlying beliefs that systematically disempower females in the first place.
In Development Work, Plan for Sailboats, Not Trains
Much of the international development community remains stuck in its old ways, focused on short time horizons, rigid planning, and unproductive evaluation.