Unpacking the Impact in Impact Investing
A longer version of "When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?" from the Fall 2013 Up for Debate feature.
A longer version of "When Can Impact Investing Create Real Impact?" from the Fall 2013 Up for Debate feature.
The sector needs to shift its attention from modest goals that provide short-term relief to bold goals that provide long-term solutions.
One Laptop per Child Australia has developed a visionary program to bring digital technology to children in remote areas.
Through the Global Changemakers program, people under the age of 25 are developing solutions to problems that directly affect them.
In troubled spots around the world, Right to Play shows how fun and games can be a serious tool for development.
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.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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 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.