This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The global refugee crisis has continued to grow and more than 65 million people are forcibly displaced around around the world. More than half of those refugees come from three…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amidst a steady stream of hyperbolic, content-free puff pieces all heralding that the impact investment industry has gone “mainstream,” Omidyar Network’s recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, “Across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Truthfully, it was a two year undertaking to find a major celebrity with global recognition who would openly associate with autism. Many celebrities who are directly affected by autism are…
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. A much talked about a new facility to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries is officially open for business, having raised $350 million in just five months. In many [countries]…
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. Hurricanes and floods on the Gulf Coast. Devastation in Puerto Rico. Raging fires in Northern California. Earthquakes in Mexico. The list of natural disasters seems to be growing at an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Billions in Change is a movement to bring useful inventions to the unlucky half of the world in order to improve quality of life for billions of people. Those inventions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ambitious global goals aimed at ending poverty and inequality by 2030 are moving more slowly than expected and would struggle to get approval from United Nations members if put to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over half the world’s land is lived on and managed using customary and traditional systems. Yet indigenous peoples and local communities have formal, legal ownership of just 10 percent of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world’s leading family planning funder, the United States, has stalled all funding to the UNFPA and threatens to eliminate global aid directed at family planning and global health. An…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All the aid and philanthropy in the world combined leaves a $2.5 trillion a year gap in the money needed to finance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The capital…