This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About a quarter of Americans listen to podcasts. A big chunk of them are millennials (44% of podcast listeners are between 18 and 34 years old). Podcasts popped 10 years ago…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As someone whose day to day job is to engage with investors and explain what social investment is, I think it is hugely important for us, and our intermediaries to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Congress turns its attention to the problems facing higher education, the Department of Education announced last week that it will seek public comment on possible relief for students with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Congress’s bipartisan budget agreement includes a historic funding increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the nation’s largest federal child care assistance program. The additional $5.8 billion for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The European Union is open to an aid worker register as well as revamping the “rules of engagement” with the charities it funds in the wake of sexual misconduct by staff at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After acquiring CrowdRise over a year ago to double down on fundraising for non-profits, GoFundMe is today taking the wraps off a new product that will supercharge the service. CrowdRise by GoFundMe is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Engaging boards authentically and productively in the development and oversight of philanthropic strategy remains one of the more challenging dimensions of leading a foundation. Board members and chief executives agree…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Melissa Bradley wants to make entrepreneurship and impact investing work for people of color in Washington D.C. the way it does for a white kid from Stanford. Bradley’s Project 500…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mother-of-two Yvonne Niami currently runs two humanitarian brands, n:Philanthropy, a clothing company; and VIVA XXXII Tequila, a give-back tequila. Niami founded n:PHILANTHROPY in 2015 as a way to marry her two loves — fashion and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gun control used to be one of those hot political buttons that no savvy corporate manager would take on without good reason, and it looks like those reasons have finally…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Computational thinking skills are versatile approaches to problem solving that include: Gathering and organizing data to investigate questions and communicate findings Expressing procedures as algorithms (that is, a series of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wellcome’s Public Engagement Fund is reopening on 5 March after being closed briefly. We’ve changed elements of how we’re going to run the scheme and what we’re looking for. In…