Governance: The Secret to Mission-Driven Business Success

By Marta Maretich & Jed Emerson 1

New research reveals a cross-sector trend that sees organizations using governance to strengthen extra-financial performance.

Redesigning American High Schools for the 21st Century

By Patrick Cook-Deegan 19

It’s time to boldly reimagine the high-school experience using the power of human-centered design, the latest adolescent neuroscience, and purpose learning.

Supporting a Truly Participant-Centered Approach to Development

By Mekdelawit Astatke Bayu 2

Resistance to unconditional cash transfers may be less about their effectiveness and applicability as a participant-focused programmatic strategy, and more about the development community’s vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0

By Joanna Radeke 4

Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.

Rewriting the Future: A Latino Prosperity Movement

By Mara Perez 7

Latino philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and technology innovators are establishing important building blocks for the creation and strategic deployment of Latino wealth.

Philanthropy & Funding

The Pitch Is Dead. Long Live the Conversation.

By Kevin Starr 19

If you treat funders like prey, they'll probably run.

The “Other” Investment Policy Statement

By Henry L. Berman 9

By adapting a tool traditionally used for managing financial portfolios, philanthropists can develop a roadmap to giving, where returns are measured in social good rather than in dollars and cents.