Marshaling Investors for Clean Energy
By investing in clean energy, impact investors can become a powerful force for fighting climate change.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Leverage: Just Another Fancy Word?
If foundations are serious about leveraging resources for the greatest good, they need to hone every dimension of their own management.
Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Investing in the Future
A new philanthropic approach to supporting new energy solutions is gaining momentum.
Taking Charge of Scaling Well
Tensions at the heart of the scaling process demonstrate the critical part that practitioners’ goals, values, and motivations play in any scaling story.
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What California Can Teach Washington
At the 2013 Stanford Center for Social Innovation’s 2013 Conradin Von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture, Nichols addresses CA's cap-and-trade system and what it means for our environment.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.