Environment

Bringing Social Impact Bonds to the Environment

By Cathy Clark & David Nicola 4

Is the social impact bond model better suited to environmental issues?

Nonprofit Management

Grantees as Customers

By Dave Peery 6

Four ways funders can serve and empower grantees.

Corporate Philanthropy

Disrupting Corporate Philanthropy

By Marc Benioff 1

Three best moves and three biggest lessons—Marc Benioff reflects on more than a decade of work at the Salesforce.com Foundation.

Economic Development

Filling Out the Middle

By Brandon Keim 3

The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs targets a "missing" segment in emerging economies.

Food

The Paradox of Fair Trade

By Manel Modelo 5

In 2011, a rift opened within the fair trade movement. What are the tensions that drove otherwise like-minded activists to form rival camps.

Foundations

Using Metrics to Encourage Innovation

By Jenny Shilling Stein 3

By introducing a learning agenda, funders can encourage innovation, drive philanthropic dollars to the best programs, and become better partners to grantees.

Measuring Social Impact

Impact, Not Overhead, Is What Counts

By Christina Triantaphyllis & Matthew Forti 1

A look at barriers global NGOs face in reporting the right measures of effectiveness—and how funders and grantees can begin to overcome them.

Social Entrepreneurship

Struggling to Innovate: Together We Stand

By Joanna Wylegala

Takeaways from a discussion on the promises and perils of innovation in the social sector.

Foundations

Don’t Dig a Deep Hole, Then Leave

By Alison Powell & Katie Smith Milway 1

Philanthropy lessons from India—Padmini Somani, head of two different foundations, talks about following the data and staying the course.

Corporate Philanthropy

Google Giving: Calibrating Moon Shots

By Jacquelline Fuller 2

When we back only proven and incremental ideas, we miss out on the opportunity to test new ones that could potentially change millions of lives.