This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Incentive prizes seem deceptively simple: Identify a problem, create and publicize a prize-based challenge for solving that problem, sign up diverse participants, and offer a reward to the winner. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recurring theme that has emerged in our conversations with nonprofits and social enterprises in recent months is the perception that, even as strides are made in cross-sector collaborations, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At every post-election panel on a human rights issue I’ve attended, the same question arises: How do you expect the Trump presidency will impact your organization’s human rights advocacy? For…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It would be a mistake to dismiss the role traditional universities can play in preparing social entrepreneurs to succeed—especially since this role is changing for the better. A growing number…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In an effort to expand the diversity of future leadership within the philanthropic sector, Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), with support from the American Express Foundation and the Cleveland Foundation, announces…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For fifty years, advocates have been urging foundations to think more holistically about applying their assets, putting some of the 95 percent to good works, not just the five percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Katherine Fulton, President of the Monitor Institute, responded to an article about strategic philanthropy originally published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Her response was published on the website alongside…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, has been relatively silent about his charitable intentions in the past. Now, however, with a very public tweet,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I want to talk to you about “wickedness”–but not the kind of wickedness you’re thinking. Since the 1960s, we’ve had a term to describe public health crises like malaria—and also rising…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By Asha Curran The nonprofit sector uses the word “collaboration” often, and in worshipful tones, but what happens in practice is usually more transactional than transformational. It often goes like…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly a decade ago, the Case Foundation declared that the millennial generation (born 1980 to 1999) would fundamentally “change how change is made.” And, indeed they have. Whether it was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nonprofits and foundations are increasingly convinced that impact investing is critical to an effective future for philanthropic efforts. Commercial giants like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock are the big players in…