What Is a Leadership Funder?
Foundations have supported leadership development for decades, but a shift in mindset and approach—if sustained and expanded—could lead to even greater impact.
Solutions - Articles
When Will Design Get Serious About Impact?
To achieve sustained impact, designers should strive to shift the fundamental dynamics of development.
Podcast
Leveraging Twitter for Nonprofit Initiatives
What nonprofits can do to maximize their influence on Twitter and through social media in general.
Supporting Nonprofit Leadership: A Pre-Flight Briefing
Three tips to help foundations supporting leadership development prepare for a successful journey.
Philanthropy’s New Release
Reflections on the changing philanthropic landscape in Silicon Valley.
Excerpt
Smartcuts
Smartcuts analyzes the smart shortcuts various successful people take via "lateral thinking" so that all workers and thinkers can be encouraged to work smarter.
Jobs for Disconnected Youth and Talent for Suppliers
Insights from an innovation lab dedicated to bridging the talent divide.
Second Curve Philanthropy
New research reveals a large gap between the world of organized philanthropy and today’s world of social action.
The Mantra of Delivery
Four lessons for scaling social impact that arose from curing children’s diarrhea in Bangladesh in the 1980s.
Signaling and Confirming
A new framework can help nonprofits and other social sector organizations measure the participation of their supporters.