Individual Giving
Smart Gifts Keep On Giving
A philanthropic investment in Guatemala has established an ongoing stream of revenue to reach at-risk kids.
Tag: Philanthropy
IN-DEPTH SERIES
SSIR x Bridgespan: Giving That Gets Results
Giving That Gets Results is an eight-week series of voices from the vanguard of giving. Philanthropists and foundation executives share how they are adapting their strategies, aiming for results, and measuring their impact to learn and improve. #givesmart
Philanthropy
Overhead Costs: The Obsession Must Stop
We can’t separate nonprofit programs from the people who develop and deliver them.
Nonprofit Management
Evaluation’s Next Generation
A look at characteristics and approaches that represent the evolution of traditional evaluation.
Food
Remaking the Food System
Investors and philanthropists must work together to generate more ecologically responsible and locally grown food for more people.
Collaboration
CauseFests: Philanthropy’s New Marketplace
A report from the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative and Social Good Summit—the trading floors of the new philanthrocapitalism.
Excerpt
Health
Pharmacy on a Bicycle
Pharmacy on a Bicycle explores innovative solutions to global health problems.
Foundations
Big Bang Philanthropy
How one group of funders gets the most for the poverty-fighting buck.
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation: What It Is and What It Isn’t
The free market can do plenty of good on its own, so let's think more systematically beyond it.
Social Entrepreneurship
Dump the Stupid Prizes, Multiply the Rest
Why we need more social enterprise competitions.