IMPACT INDIA
Philanthropy’s New Frontier—Impact Investing
Philanthropists should become more active impact investors, focusing on building sustainable social enterprises often overlooked by private investors who seek market-rate returns.
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
IMPACT INDIA
Do It the Hard Way
To ensure that its clean-water initiatives will stick and grow, Splash works with local partners that will take over when it moves on.
IMPACT INDIA
Outsized Outcomes
With a sustainable program structure, skilled advocacy, and targeted technical assistance, Evidence Action helped pull off the world’s largest one-day deworming event.
IMPACT INDIA
Meeting the Challenge of Educating Girls
Educate Girls is helping more than one million Indian schoolchildren.
IMPACT INDIA
Improving Sanitation for Adolescent Girls
The lack of toilets in India has a disproportionate impact on adolescent girls.
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Business
The Role of Business in Collective Impact
A new report highlights how the business community’s support and expertise can greatly enhance the odds of success for collective impact efforts in education.
Health
Nature Meets Nurture: A New Approach to Childhood Mental Illness
By predicting vulnerability, biological science can help families, communities, clinicians, and policymakers develop more effective responses to a troubling health challenge.
Impact Investing
Investing in Women
The benefits of gender-lens investing have a strong ripple effect.
Education
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Online
Online advising promises to connect low-income, first-generation students to college and career opportunities.