Mixing Business and Social What is a Social Enterprise and How Can We Recognise One? by Andrew Rogerson and Gideon Rabinowitz A clearer, generally agreed definition of what constitutes a...
Corporate Philanthropy: It Is No Longer About Charity (Nor Should It Be) by Alice Korngold Multinational corporations have the global footprint, financial and human resources, and profit incentive to solve...
The Revolution on the Frontiers of Philanthropy and Social Investment by Lester M. Salamon With the resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy barely growing or in decline, yet the...
For the past thirty years, I have spent much of my working life raising money for causes and organizations I believe in, and during that time I have met a...
In this essay series three themes have been explored. The first was that the doers and funders of social good (charities, individual and institutional philanthropists, and their expert advisors) have,...
The October shutdown of the U.S. government was yet another proxy war over the legitimacy of the social safety net. With the Affordable Care Act, which mandates eligibility for private...
When it comes to influencing others delivering the right number of messages to support your proposal or proposition is going to be crucial. Too few and your attempt might come...
The Environmental Funders Network’s new report Passionate Collaboration? (available at www.greenfunders.org ) represents a first attempt to ‘map’ the demand side of the grants market for environmental philanthropy. As such...
Giving money directly to poor people works surprisingly well. But it cannot deal with the deeper causes of poverty. SOME unlikely things combined to change Gabriel Otieno Anoche’s life. A...