Philanthropy & Funding
Building Indigenous Power and Investing in Indigenous Self-Determination
To solve the most pressing issues for Indigenous communities—and for the world at large—power and autonomy must be given to Indigenous people themselves.
Tag: Sustainable Development Goals
Social Enterprise
Lending in the Shadow of Colonialism
Financial program to help microenterprises in Tanzania fails to take historical context into account.
Organizational Development
Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs
By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Impact Investing
What Investors Need to Know to Embrace Catalytic Capital
Development finance institutions, private foundations, and other types of investors have distinct questions about using catalytic capital. We must answer them help this branch of impact investing do more to solve pressing societal problems.
Education
A Better Education for All During—and After—the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and its partners shows how to help children learn amid erratic access to schools during a pandemic, and how those solutions may make progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring a quality education for all by 2030.
Technology
How Tech Companies Can Advance Data Science for Social Good
With only 68 percent of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals being tracked by reliable data, technology companies can and must do more to help organizations achieve the potential of the data science for social good movement. Leaders in the field share four insights showing how.
Government
Inclusive Innovation at the Ryerson Diversity Institute
By working with other academic partners, government, private sector, and community partners, the Diversity Institute uses a systems approach to address barriers for underrepresented groups, improve social outcomes, and support economic growth. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Environment
How Philanthropy Must Address the Climate Emergency
Breaking down silos means starting from intersectionality and emphasizing climate justice.
Education
What Is the Civic University For?
Embedding action through research by placing the Sustainable Development Goals at the center of university planning. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Education
University Rankings as a Tool for Social Impact
How Times Higher Education developed and implemented a new set of social impact rankings for higher education for a more sustainable, resilient future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.