Health
Cultivating Cross-Sector Partnerships
An HIV organization in Botswana provides lessons in cooperation.
Tag: Philanthropy
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Kay Sprinkel Grace - Craigslist Boot Camp Keynote
Mission, vision, and values are the essential ingredients of a transformational process that brings philanthropists and organizations together to meet critical community needs. Kay Sprinkel Grace approaches fundraising with an attitude of pride and power. In this audio lecture, she explains how donors are inspired to invest in an organization that communicates shared beliefs by taking real action to benefit those in need.
Economic Development
Review: The White Man’s Burden
Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Philanthropy
Review: Effective Philanthropy
Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality
Social Innovations
Your Inner Philanthropist
What gets lost when donors follow their own hearts instead of recipients’ needs.
Measuring Social Impact
Overhead Isn’t Everything
How donors should think about nonprofit efficiency.
Measuring Social Impact
Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Individual Giving
A New Take on Tithing
Too often, individuals make decisions about how much money to donate to charitable causes on an ad hoc basis. As a result, many people give less money than they can actually afford.
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Strategic Philanthropy - Bridging the Gap Conference
A new generation of innovative philanthropists is helping to transform charitable giving. This panel discussion highlights the philosophy of three young, but outstanding, organizations in the strategic philanthropic field. Panelists emphasize the targeted use of wealth to address specific social challenges.
Podcast
Health
Dr. Paul Farmer - Partners In Health
Recipient of the 9th Annual Heinz Award for the Human Condition, Paul Farmer is a medical doctor and a professor of anthropology at Harvard's medical school. He shuttles between Harvard and Haiti, where he maintains a practice at Clinique Bon Saveur, a charity hospital he founded. Farmer talks in this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about the challenges and rewards of providing healthcare to the poorest of the poor, and the evolving, innovative models for getting drugs to those who need them most.