Using Brands for Impact

By Grant Tudor 4

Social sector brands are more than logos on annual reports; they are tools to drive impact.

Supporting Small Businesses for Big Change

By Randall Kempner & Kate McElligott 9

Can donors do more to leverage small business as an effective means of delivering development services?

Making the Money Work

By Anthony B. Iton 2

How funders can best support place-based initiatives.

Business

New Business Growth in the Era of Collaboration

By Mark Esposito & Terence Tse 1

A new partnership model is poised to take advantage of under-the-radar, new markets that business-as-usual may overlook.

What Gets Measured Gets Done

By Kelly A. Hunt & Jacqueline Martinez Garcel 4

A case for using targeted measures of progress in philanthropy.

Does the Development Sector Need Its Own WikiLeaks?

By Christian Seelos & Maria May 7

Could radical transparency in global development lead to better outcomes?

Toward a Bolder Philanthropy

By Patricia Lannen & Maya Ziswiler

Philanthropists must support big, difficult, and politically sensitive issues that government, nonprofits, multilateral organizations, and other actors are unable or unwilling to address.

21st-Century Refugee Protection

By Catherine Crooke, Merin Guthrie, Becca Heller, & Katie Reisner 1

Today’s 60 million displaced people have a basic need beyond food, water, and shelter: legal representation.

Can Individual and Institutional Donors Be Friends?

By Chris Cardona, Hilary Pennington, & Paul Shoemaker 4

These groups' perspectives are closer than most think—and it’s good news for philanthropy.

How Evaluation Can Strengthen Communities

By Kien Lee & David M. Chavis 3

Including community members in decisions about evaluation can improve the community’s capacity to effectively manage and control change.