Business
Corporate Venture Capital: A New Accelerant for Impact
How corporate venture capital investors can work with traditional VC investors to nurture entrepreneurs and more space for impact investment.
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Social Enterprise
Profit and Purpose: How Social Innovation is Transforming Business for Good
Profit and Purpose: How Social Innovation is Transforming Business for Good is a look at how social entrepreneurs have used business models to change the world.
Fundraising
Building Your Individual Donor Base
A recent study reveals opportunities for small nonprofits to strengthen individual donor contributions.
Nonprofit Management
Is Something Better than Nothing?
Mission-driven organizations would do well to remember that they become the company they keep, and to take care in choosing the right collaborators.
Philanthropy
Passing the Torch on Impact Investing
An introduction to the recently released book New Frontiers of Philanthropy.
Civil Society
From Petitions to Decisions
After Change.org placed petitions at the center of its platform, the size of its membership soared. But operating a high-volume petition site isn’t enough for its leaders. Includes magazine extras.
Impact Investing
Foundation-Owned Social Enterprises: A New Way Forward?
A novel impact investment model can help social enterprises and foundations generate a high social return on investment.
Podcast
Nonprofits
The Paradoxical Break in Philanthropy
Ned Breslin and Jacob Lief discuss funding for long-term impact in the current philanthropic system.
Big Picture
Storytelling and the Dangers of Disbelief
Social innovators can benefit from embracing complex characters and stories.
Individual Giving
Millennials and the Social Sector: What’s Next?
How the Millennial generation connects, gets involved with, and gives to social causes—insights from a four-year study.