Get Rid of the Grid?
An emerging business model that aims to reduce energy poverty holds real promise. But it needs a jump-start.
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A Guide to “Good” Investment
Two impact investing pioneers offer a primer on efforts to generate both social benefits and financial returns.
How Fair Trade Grew
Variances in the experience of producer countries strongly affect how fair trade markets have evolved.
As Giving Goes Global
Philanthropic activity is increasing worldwide in ways that reflect a shared ethos of humanitarian "virtue."
Social Work as a Social Wedge
In China, a new kind of NGO has started to embed the values of civil society in its provision of social services.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.