Sales and Social Enterprise Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
To market to the base of pyramid, we need to stop thinking of selling as a dark art.
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Housing for Health
Nine communities in the United States are finding ways to invest in housing to contain health care costs.
Shared Gifting: Shifting Funding Power to Nonprofits
When nonprofits dole out grant money to peers, the result is a transformative experience that fosters innovation, collaboration, and learning.
Hiring Incentives Won’t Solve America’s Talent Problem
Policymakers need new interventions to help companies change the way they source talent.
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Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Prediction vs Bias
Is it possible to use data to make predictions without enforcing existing biases?
Putting Community First
Community foundations should reaffirm their unique role in the philanthropic landscape and focus on the needs of their geographic community.
The Charity That Big Tech Built
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has grown to become one of the world’s most well-funded foundations. But who in the Valley benefits from this largesse?
Do Benefit Corporations Respect Human Rights?
The B Corp movement has pushed a powerful model of socially responsible business that has the potential to advance human rights. But it has so far failed to engage human rights advocates—to its detriment.
Scaling Science
A new approach to scaling is needed in which the goal is scaling up social impact for public good. Open access to this article is made possible by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering
One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem.