Collaboration
How Research Universities Can Help the Refugee Crisis
Academic-humanitarian collaborations that mobilize rigorous scientific research can improve the effectiveness of aid efforts.
Tag: United Nations
Philanthropy & Funding
Finding New Ways to Give
We must chart a new path for philanthropic giving that is more aware and connected, and that takes more advantage of converging around shared aims and goals.
Technology
Wearing It Well (for Good)
With Kid Power, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is using technology to leverage children’s desire to help other children.
Environment
The Failures of the Paris Climate Change Agreement and How Philanthropy Can Fix Them
Philanthropy needs to support climate justice, undercut the power of the fossil fuel industry, beware false solutions, and support clean energy.
Organizational Development
Optimizing International Corporate Volunteer Programs
Four steps to making a positive difference in the field—and developing valuable leadership skills along the way.
Human Rights
Land Rights: From Awareness to Action
The new emphasis on land rights in the global development agenda is a positive step, but could be meaningless without significant shifts in support.
Human Rights
Belief-based Social Innovation: Gender-Lens’ Next Frontier
The gender-lens movement is beginning to fund culturally led efforts to transform underlying beliefs that systematically disempower females in the first place.
Business
Ending HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Sector Responsibility
The private sector has an important role to play in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic and improving health systems as a whole.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Embracing the Business of Development
If we want to achieve all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we need to start at the bottom of the list.
Design Thinking
Using Design Thinking to Eradicate Poverty Creation
We need to ratchet up from targeted innovation and apply design-thinking principles to one of the biggest social issues of our time: global poverty itself.