Civic Engagement
The Moment for Participatory Democracy
Three civic engagement models that can help bring the voices of everyday citizens into public life.
Tag: Transparency
Impact Investing
Bono Doesn’t Know—All of Us Are Still Learning
Recent headline-grabbing comments aside, the impact investing field needs integrated data on impact and financial returns if it is to scale with integrity.
Business
Corporate Social Responsibility for a Data Age
Proprietary data can help improve and save lives, but fully harnessing its potential will require a cultural transformation in the way companies, governments, and other organizations treat and act on data.
Social Issues
Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing
Why investors need to integrate rights and accountability into development finance, and how they can begin.
Organizational Development
Public Organizations, Private Meetings
Given that all charities and charitable foundations exist to serve the public good, why do so few hold their meetings in public?
Collaboration
Walking a Different Kind of Grantmaker Walk
By actively moving into the roles of advocate and partner for grantees, grantmakers can cultivate trusting, transparent relationships that ultimately translate into social impact.
Collaboration
Four Ways to Bridge the Grantee-Grantmaker Power Gap in Collective Impact
As grassroots and “grass-tops” groups come together to create collective impact, funders have the power to foster truly authentic engagement and co-ownership among all.
Measurement & Evaluation
Impact Assessment: Corporate Sustainability 2.0
Unless companies commit to measuring impact, their sustainability initiatives will solve only pockets of social problems or have no real impact at all.
Podcast
Economic Development
The Role of Public Policy in Alleviating Poverty
To really make a difference in tackling inequality, we need coordination on a range of policy issues, from housing and transportation to jobs and education.