Review: Just Money
Karoff reveals how wise donors operate.
Socially Responsible Investing
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Live from CoF: How to Break Down the Firewall
What sparked life-time trustees, who once saw investments only in terms of financial returns, to embrace program-related investments?
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The New Economy of Nature
The authors describe a new approach to environmental conservation that takes market realities into account, rather than relying on philanthropy and altruism.
Profiting From Failure
What nonprofits and donors can learn from the closing of a venture philanthropy firm.
Review: The Business of Changing the World
Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy.
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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.
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.
Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.