Education
Partnering for Peace Through Education
How a family foundation identified the nonprofit V-Day as a partner to create a new kind of scholarship program.
Tag: Grantmaking
Impact Investing
A Fault in Funding
An initiative undertaken by the World Bank reveals a troubling gap in the financing of social enterprises.
Measuring Social Impact
Transforming Our Anti-Social Sector
Our sector’s trajectory does not point to a pivotal future role in solving social problems—what might a new paradigm look like, and could we ever get there?
Philanthropy
Strategic Philanthropy and the Risk of Certainty
Strategic philanthropy has produced many great results, but we must not be too rigid in our adherence to certain practices.
Technology & Design
Silicon Valley Takes on Gun Violence
A group of Silicon Valley investors is challenging entrepreneurs to create high-tech solutions to reducing gun violence.
Philanthropy
Collective Impact: Funder, Heal Thyself
Thoughts on recent local and national funder conversations.
Foundations
Think You Know Private Foundations? Think Again.
The investment and giving behavior of many private foundations differs from that of the mega-foundations; and it matters that we know.
Social Entrepreneurship
Innovating in Development Through Accountapreneurship
How one organization is combining the best elements of accountability and entrepreneurship to redefine development paradigms of the past.
Philanthropy
Five Ways Funders Can Replicate What Works
A look at how funders can support effective implementation of evidence-based programs.
Philanthropy
Funding for Outcomes
Mario Morino, author of Leap of Reason, discusses funder pitfalls in setting and measuring goals for grantees.