Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab helps identify investment-worthy business people in developing countries.
The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab helps identify investment-worthy business people in developing countries.
The UK microcredit business Fair Finance is paving the road for the growth of microfinance in the developed world.
Change.org, a five-year-old San Francisco-based startup, has emerged as one of the leading platforms for online activism.
All across the developing world, poor parents are investing in low-cost private education for their children—and seeing positive results.
The recent collapse of Hull House is a reminder that the tectonic shifts underway in the human service sector cannot be avoided.
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.