A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, ...
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning ...
How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, ...
To address this gap between intent and practice, the Schott Foundation for Public Education engaged PTKO, a consulting group ...
Collective impact tends to generate strong reactions. Mention it, and the person across from you will likely either extol its virtues or roll their eyes. Introduced in a 2011 SSIR article, the ...
Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...
In 2022, our colleagues at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were struggling to address one of the world’s most profound child health crises: hundreds of thousands of children in Chad suffering ...
Sometimes a prosaic AI query produces something that looks more like parody. The other day, I asked Claude to give me the latest definition of “impact investing” and it served up this gem: “There’s ...
Experienced practitioners such as Rakesh Rajani and Tim Hanstad note that NGOs and philanthropies often overlook “the most effective pathway to scale solutions to our planet's biggest ...
Much of artificial intelligence (AI) in common use is dedicated to predicting people’s behavior. It tries to anticipate your next purchase, your next mouse-click, your next job move. But such ...
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.
How we developed a new benchmark to shift philanthropic norms ...