This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The mobilization of capital for the 21st-century transformation of food and agriculture, health and education, cities and ecosystems, may track five years or so behind renewable energy. But after moving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As educators nationwide grapple with a digital divide that leaves millions of children who don’t have high-speed home internet access behind at school, a new survey suggests middle school students…
This is an excerpt from the full article by BoardSource attached above While all effective board members understand and meet their basic responsibilities, truly exceptional board members do more. They go…
Marshall Ganz reflects on community organizing for greater impact. This keynote presentation occurred on May 24, 2017, at the Collective Impact Convening. Learning to make change in turn is not a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Does the news cycle drive philanthropy? Giving Compass — founded to provide learning resources to donors who want to give with greater impact — was only a few months old…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cancer survival rates plummet when the disease spreads around the body. An estimated 90% of cancer deaths are caused when tumors enter other organs or tissues, according to researchers. One…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Corporate philanthropy programs can help a firm attract and keep talented young professionals, according to experts in the field. Anne Black, President of Goldman Sachs Gives; Sandra Liu Huang, the head of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the industry’s most impressive areas of progress and achievement rarely makes headlines, even though it is fundamental to impact investing, is impact measurement and management. To better understand…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the dawn of computers, people programmed rules for computers to follow. With machine learning, computers program themselves by learning from data. Machines have traditionally had a hard time with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Education Department officials today announced a plan to grant partial debt relief to defrauded student borrowers based on the earnings of graduates who attended a particular program of study. It’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A survey from the Global Impact Investing Network finds that more than 60 percent of 168 impact investors queried say they care about measuring impact because of its business value. The report…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Looking back just a few years, it might have been hard to imagine the expanded role the private sector would play in global development conversations. Blended finance, impact investing, and…