Q&A With Ram Shriram
Silicon Valley insider Ram Shriram is focusing a great deal of time, money, and energy on helping innovative NGOs improve K–12 education in India.
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Scaling Up Impact
An effort to improve sanitation in developing countries yields lessons in how to achieve enduring, broad-based social impact.
Meeting the Challenge of Educating Girls
Educate Girls is helping more than one million Indian schoolchildren.
Improving Sanitation for Adolescent Girls
The lack of toilets in India has a disproportionate impact on adolescent girls.
Coal: The Time to Divest Is Now
Coal is in decline, and it may well be terminal.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.