Measuring Social Impact
Learning from Silicon Valley
How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.
Tag: Partnerships
Impact Investing
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.
Environment
A Big Deal for Conservation
A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.
Social Entrepreneurship
Fostering Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon
Social entrepreneurship provides a path to transform Lebanon’s challenges into opportunities for change and development.
Philanthropy
Not All Nonprofit Mergers Are Created Equal
Lessons from the Community Catalyst Fund in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Impact Investing
Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impact Approach
To help provide clarity to its clients, Morgan Stanley outlines an Investing with Impact framework, encompassing four integrated approaches.
Health
HP’s Cross-Sector Health Partnership in Kenya
HP’s work with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Kenyan government on early infant diagnosis of HIV is saving lives.
Economic Development
Kraft Foods’ Cocoa Partnership in Ghana
To develop the next generation of cocoa farmers in Ghana, Kraft Foods created a cross-sector initiative with a long-term view.
Social Entrepreneurship
Flux to Flex: Takeaways from the 2012 Skoll World Forum
A new brand of social entrepreneurship is emerging.