The Dirt on Seed-Funding Social Change
As philanthropists, I think our deepest duty is to gamble on people, through untried solutions that just might overturn ancient societal inequities.
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Starting a RYOT In Traditional News
Host Ned Breslin speaks with the RYOT founders about their plans to disrupt traditional media by allowing people to “Become the News.”
Microinsurance: Scaling Through Peer Learning
Insurers in Peru and South Africa are learning from each other how to reach low-income clients and help break the cycle of poverty.
The Business Case for Investing in Talent
Every dollar invested in employee development yields more efficient and effective impact.
Investing Evolves
A brief history of investing that advances environmental and social concerns, and why impact investors and sustainable investors should look to what they have in common, not how they differ.
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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.