This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo has teamed up with a group of corporate, private and philanthropic investors in a new venture to do good in the region, while still…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A typical, commercial fund manager receives investor commitments based on a particular thesis. In a rational yet self-reinforcing cycle, the fund manager becomes a cheerleader for that investment proposition. Even…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Meanwhile, we have some other challenges in the sector we have to deal with. BoardSource just released its report on board diversity, and the statistics are frustrating, disappointing, and somewhat…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the non-profit sector becomes more professional, young people are keener on qualifications tailored for it. According to Roseanne Mirabella of Seton Hall University, the number of courses at American…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many of the country’s largest tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce pledged a total of $300 million for computer science education, part of a partnership with the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Let’s start by getting real here when it comes to social change. Real is the harm that the global economy has caused through centuries of extractive practices. Real are the challenges that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It only launched last year, but The Rise Fund was all over the agenda at the October Social Capital Markets conference, which draws investors and entrepreneurs to San Francisco each year to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mini-grids, small community-based power plants and distribution systems, could provide more than 40% of the connections needed to deliver clean power to the world’s 1 billion people who still don’t…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. DISD (Dallas Independent School District) is in the first year of a three-year plan to expand computer science curriculum to all 151 elementary campuses. It’s one of the largest rollouts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, spends $35 to fully immunize a child. But it would spend $36 or $37 per child if that extra investment meant better tracking and therefore savings…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I find myself reflecting upon the various forms of resistance available to us and the many ways we are called to place our bodies against the cogs of capitalism to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you’ve listened to KQED public radio in northern California in the last week, you may have heard a spot from a new sponsor: the Low-Income Investment Fund (LIIF), a…