What’s Next: Out-Greening Your Neighbor
Nobody wants to be the biggest energy hog on the block.
Nobody wants to be the biggest energy hog on the block.
Jeff Raikes takes over the Gates Foundation at a turbulent time when philanthropic resources are down and social needs are up.
How do we create an efficient capital market for philanthropy? What are the best ways to marry program evaluation with powerful dynamics among online giving places? What role should public policy take in all this? In this free-ranging audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Randy Komisar offers a venture capitalist's perspective on these questions and more.
Social networking tools reveal that there is an intricate web of relationships between business and environmentalists, which if developed could benefit the environmental movement.
Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets a way for consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.
How to move from net zero to net impact.
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
To get an idea of where impact investment might be headed over the next decade, the authors examine where the field has been in three areas that play an outsized role in its goals and practices.
It’s time for funders to get real about what social entrepreneurs need to succeed.