Where are the Rio+20 Billions for Distributed Solar?
India and Africa are ideal markets for distributed solar—will some of the $513 billion in commitments made at Riio+20 get deployed there?
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Achieving Takeoff
Part VI in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
The Development of Civil Society in China
A look at new research on philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing in China.
Government Matters
Part V in Omidyar Network’s case for a sector-based approach to impact investing.
Impatient Capital
Highlights from the Clinton Global Initiative 2012.
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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.