Partnering for Peace Through Education
How a family foundation identified the nonprofit V-Day as a partner to create a new kind of scholarship program.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Bridging the Gaps in Public Infrastructure
Communities in emerging economies must work collectively to extend public services until they can build out formal infrastructures.
Making a Healthy Exit
In places like rural Guatemala, the quest to sustain a vital social enterprise often depends on finding the right private-sector partner.
Advocacy Isn’t “Soft”
Evaluating efforts to promote shifts in policy requires methods that are at once rigorous and flexible.
A Fault in Funding
An initiative undertaken by the World Bank reveals a troubling gap in the financing of social enterprises.
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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.