Impact Investing
Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
Tag: Africa
Organizational Development
Building Brand as Your Organization Grows
Growing a social venture can create brand challenges with far-reaching consequences.
Leadership
Can Business Elites Save the “Africa Rising” Narrative?
Four strategies in particular may help Africa’s wealthiest businesspeople effect social change and drive economic growth.
Education
Let the Man Do His Job!
It’s hard to be a government minister in a country where resources are scarce. Don’t make it worse.
Measurement & Evaluation
How Nonprofits Can Drive Healthy Growth Using SROI
Social return on investment is an underutilized yet surprisingly flexible tool for making strong resource allocation decisions that maximize nonprofit impact.
Education
Why Matchmaking in Youth Employment Programs in Middle East North Africa Aren’t Working
Insights from 10 years working on youth employment program matchmaking.
Education
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education
History proves that big financing ideas can triumph over seemingly insurmountable global challenges.
Collaboration
10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions
How to make collaboration work in a world of complex systems and exponential change.
Civic Engagement
Lessons from East Africa on Effective Community Organizing
How a revitalized sense of civic duty can go beyond resistance and make real progress.
Human Rights
Protecting the Heart of Environmental Civil Society
Three strategies for ensuring the safety and security of people defending their environment and human rights around the world.