A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good
What’s the best way for small individual investors to generate returns and deliver impact? (Spoiler: It’s probably not an ESG fund.)
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10 SSIR Stories on Impact Investing’s Next Phase
Ten SSIR articles that examine the growing field of impact investing from a range of perspectives, including investors, philanthropists, nonprofits, researchers, social entrepreneurs, and local communities.
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Sustainable Pragmatism
An excerpt from Environmentally Sustainable Growth on the transition to an environmentally sustainable American economy
The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need
If local governments are to effectively address our biggest global concerns, they’ll need to expand their skill sets.
10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now
Instead of preparing for the distant future, philanthropy needs to work to prepare for the here and now.
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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.