When You Build It and They Still Don’t Come
The World Bank reevaluates previous methods.
The World Bank reevaluates previous methods.
Interview with Seth Berkley, president and CEO of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Humanitarianism has failed, say the authors.
Foundations favor urban poor over rural residents.
Foundations can move past traditional approaches to create social change through imaginative – and even controversial – leadership.
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.
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.
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.
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.