Philanthropy as Infrastructure?
As a society, we should not encourage the replacement of public responsibilities by private philanthropy.
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Innovations in public services that promote equity and opportunity (more)
Sixteen Days, Eight Cities, One Question
Solving social challenges requires working with people to develop the ideas that will enable them to live the lives they want.
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Global Issues
Service Innovation
This panel discussion focuses on healthcare delivery and how experts have sustained in delivering high-quality treatment.
Big Society or Collective Impact?
How are the UK and US addressing the third sector’s next challenges, and where they are failing?
Adapting to the “Unreliable Patron”: Sustaining Access Missions with Entrepreneurial Universities
The meaning and function of college in our society has changed.
Welfare Works Better than Bootstraps
In Britain, the social safety net allows people who fall into poverty to pull themselves out. Americans who become poor are more likely to stay that way.
Innovating Public Systems
With these seven levers, social entrepreneurs can foster change in everything from affordable housing to child welfare to poverty alleviation.
A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Foundation and nonprofit leaders need to pay the same attention to increasing employment in the sector as they do to preserving the full deductibility of donations at the highest tax brackets.
Shared Services Alliances: Part 1
Creating back office alliances—an interview with John Weiser, a principal with the nonprofit technical assistance organization Opportunities Exchange.
Playing Baseball with Tennis Rackets: What’s Not Being Included in Our Collaborative Meetings
Nonprofits need to share information and resources.