Impact Investing
The Next Great Frontier of Impact Investing
A framework to make impact investing appealing to institutional investors and accessible to international nonprofits.
Tag: International Development
Nonprofits
Social Good = Scale x Impact (Who Knew?)
Why both nonprofits and academics should focus on scale and impact in this simple formula for good.
Technology & Design
Getting Leapfrogging Right
A new generation of digital breakthroughs holds the potential to deliver important social benefits, but only if we adopt technology in a different way.
From The Field
Building Local Currency
Three lessons from successful advocacy projects in the Global South.
Global Issues
Putting Politics Back Into Development
Why the international development community cannot ignore the role of politics in creating sustainable social change.
Measuring Social Impact
The Problem With The Impact Genome Project
Would the Impact Genome Project have predicted the impact of Martin Luther King?
Review
Economic Development
The Trouble With Top-Down
The limits of technocratic, one-size-fits-all approaches to economic development have become all too evident.
Economic Development
Tackling Financial Exclusion
How to provide sustainable banking solutions for low-income consumers in the United States and abroad.
Economic Development
The Dirt on Seed-Funding Social Change
As philanthropists, I think our deepest duty is to gamble on people, through untried solutions that just might overturn ancient societal inequities.
Global Issues
From Service Learning to Learning Service
Personal development and global development are intrinsically linked, but our current service-learning model might need flipping on its head.