IMPACT INDIA
Scaling Up Impact
An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.
Tag: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Health
Three Strategies for Achieving the New Global Development Goals
We must create new channels for collaboration, new strategies for investment, and a coordinated approach as we look to achieve and pay for the new global agenda.
Features
Can We Measure Media Impact? Surveying the Field
Two scholars analyze an array of current approaches to gauging whether and how news organizations make a difference in the world.
Education
Reforming the Education Debate
Recent changes in US policy regarding teacher evaluation reflect the impact of foundation-supported advocacy.
Big Picture
Fostering Behavior Change for Better Health
How a patient-centered approach and tools from the private sector can greatly enhance global health programs that require changes in attitudes or behavior.
Nonprofit Management
Are Nonprofits Getting in the Way of Social Change?
Solving major social problems is now possible, but not unless the organizations that have been most responsible for making a difference change significantly.
Health
Making Capitalism Work for the Poor
Innovative public-private partnerships are essential for ending disease and saving lives in the world’s poorest nations.
Philanthropy
Known Quantity
To be effective, the work of philanthropy should be not just innovative but also cumulative.
Human Rights
Feminism Meets Philanthrocapitalism
Women’s empowerment issues took center stage at this year’s CGI and Social Good Summit, giving new momentum to causes helping women and girls.
Impact Investing
A New Vision for Funding Science
Philanthropic investment can close the funding gap between science research and the commercialization of science-based products.