Education
Fixing Ed-Tech’s Investment Model
The sector currently suffers from a version of the classic “lemons problem.”
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Cities
Our Cities Are Going Dark
The rise of the venture capital-backed delivery economy demands a cross-sector pushback.
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Public Interest Tech Has a Pipeline Problem
Tech companies that prioritize the public interest are essential for a more just future, but they need investments at their earliest stages to thrive.
Scaling
Growing Locally and Deeply
Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
Impact Investing
How Venture Capital Can Join the ESG Revolution
Venture capital has lagged behind on adoption of ESG practices. Here are four ways they can become more mainstream.
Impact Investing
An Arsenal of Operator-Investors for Africa
Like FDR’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” Africa should build from the bottom: Internal instead of external, bottom-up instead of top-down, and focusing on repeatability instead of scalability.
Impact Investing
Corporate Impact Investing in Innovation
Five characteristics of effective corporate impact investors to help guide an emerging field.
Podcast
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How Venture Philanthropy Works and Its Role in Effective Charity
SSIR's publisher Michael Voss speaks with Jim Bildner of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and Julia Reed of Schwab Charitable about the history, implications, and potential of viewing charity through an investment lens. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of Schwab Charitable.
Social Enterprise
How to Help a Social Startup Thrive
Five rules of the road from a seed-stage investor in financial technology for the underserved.
Podcast
Environment
Bridging the Climate Change Investment Gap
Investments in discovering and developing new solutions to address climate change are woefully low and have even been falling. Sarah Kearney and Scott Burger discuss how can philanthropists help.