The Promise of Mandatory Community Service

By Ann Lovell 7

How a little-known tradition that helped rebuild Rwanda could help the rest of us.

Nonprofits

Shifts in Thinking to Achieve Transformative Scale

By Mark Bonchek 9

We need to shift from a focus on production to impact, and leverage principles of platforms, networks, community, and co-creation.

Taking Mobile Money to the Next Level

By Ignacio Mas

For mobile money services to evolve, providers need to support all the activities that go on before, during, and after customers make payments.

Global Issues

Starting a New Relationship in Education

By Yiming Ma 3

Incubators are serving as a transformational vehicle in the education sector.

Lights, Camera, Philanthropy

By Christine Essel 1

A close-up on giving and the entertainment industry.

Empowering Movements for Global Education Reform

By Wendy Kopp 5

Our experience challenges notions that quality scaling requires top-down, centralized approaches.

Business

Sexy or Successful, What’s Your Impact Investing Pleasure?

By Louis C. Boorstin

A new framework for effective and efficient impact investing.

Design Thinking for Accountability

By Blair Glencorse 6

A new community justice system in Liberia emerges from a design-thinking approach.

Nonprofit Management

Transformative Scale Means “Crowding In”

By Susan Davis 6

We must develop and scale programs and ideas that harness the power of social movements.