Beyond Sexy
Let’s start telling social entrepreneurial aspirants the truth and get those who support the field financially to acknowledge that staying power and relationship-building are ineluctable partners to innovation. Part two of a series.
Let’s start telling social entrepreneurial aspirants the truth and get those who support the field financially to acknowledge that staying power and relationship-building are ineluctable partners to innovation. Part two of a series.
Social entrepreneurs have to get out there and do the work, with enough staying power to make a real impact. Part one of a two-part series.
What would Hari Seldon think of big data?
One simple change to the IRS code would ensure that nonprofits assemble diverse boards that truly represent the organizations’ owners: the community.
Old-school development and its rusting reminders.
The superficially enticing “logic” of effective altruism ultimately leads to a moralistic, hyper-rationalistic, top-down approach to philanthropy that can kill the very altruistic spirit it claims to foster.
Carbon for Water is engaged in a loopy funding scheme and offers a lousy public health solution.
Grantmakers should provide enough money for nonprofits to pay for all their operations, not just programs and services.
Is scaling up always a good thing?
Finger-wagging critics have missed the most provocative component of the TED empire.