Government
Finding a Niche
In Colombia, the Center for Social Innovation is exploring how much government can do to facilitate social change.
Tag: Food Access
Economic Development
All in One Place
Single Stop USA provides low-income Americans with a convenient gateway to a wider range of services and benefits.
Food
In Aid of Conflict?
International food assistance can lead to a spike in the occurrence of armed conflict within a country.
Impact Investing
Integrated Capital for Social Enterprises
To build a thriving social enterprise sector, we need to rethink the purpose of capital and employ a new strategic funding approach.
Nonprofit Management
Partnering with Corporations for Greater Scale
How the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is using business to advance a nationwide health initiative.
Nonprofit Management
Great Ideas and Great Execution Require Different Skills
Five important lessons on the relationship between innovating and achieving scale.
Food
Food Doesn’t Grow in Silicon Valleys
A focus on innovation can be an impediment to genuine progress in the food system.
Individual Giving
Fatal Flaw
After a disaster, donors to relief funds pay more attention to the death toll than to the needs of survivors.
Foundations
Using Metrics to Encourage Innovation
By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.
Food
Remaking the Food System
Investors and philanthropists must work together to generate more ecologically responsible and locally grown food for more people.