Food
All Aboard the Food Forest
A free food project on New York's waterways challenges residents to imagine how we might adapt to a more resource-constrained world.
Tag: Environmental Sustainability
Economic Development
The Terrace Keepers
Farmers in the Cordillera region of the Philippines prosper by selling heirloom rice, with help from a company called Eighth Wonder.
Collaboration
A Movement Without Letters
How funders can listen better, step back, and walk alongside grassroots leadership.
Energy
Recognizing India’s Energy Independence
It is time for the West to shift its orientation to India and other developing nations—away from a paternalistic position to one of true partnership.
Philanthropy & Funding
Staying the Course in Funding Climate Change Solutions
Frequent changes in grantmaking strategies can undermine the resilience of nonprofit organizations and their progress on addressing urgent global issues.
Environment
How Green Bonds Will Become Mainstream
What needs to happen before environmentally friendly investments can become an established part of the market?
Advocacy
Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations
New types of civil society organizations are powerfully and successfully using technology to campaign online and offline for social, economic, and environmental change.
Measurement & Evaluation
Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0
Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.
Environment
Making It Our Business to Conserve Ecosystems (Not Just Elephants)
Existing forests and diverse ecosystems are arguably the world’s most valuable resources. How can we make preserving them worth our while?
Video
Foundations
Elusive Yardstick
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses one of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit world - how to evaluate progress and success.