Content tagged with “Philanthropy”
A century ago, the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission, the precursor to the Rockefeller Foundation, helped eradicate hookworm in the American South. Today, the ClimateWorks Foundation, financed by a...
Tags: Philanthropy, Metrics, M&E, measurement and evaluation, Mario Morino, Venture Philanthropy Partners, Aspen Philanthropy Group Gateskeepers: Is Giving away money - and lots of it - really the best way to change the world? Dayo Olopade, American Prospect, September 2, 2010
Tags: Philanthropy, ANDE, Social entrepreneurship Dear readers,This will be the last “So What?” update this month. The APEP staff is taking a much-needed hiatus next week and will be back in September better than ever. See you then!Sincerely, The...
Tags: Philanthropy, International Development, Evaluation Theory and Methods, APEP News Leaders on the ground know more - and can do the most - to make positive change happen in their communities. But community leaders too often operate in isolation. Distance, time and...
Tags: Community Development, Philanthropy, Organizational Effectiveness, livelihoods Imagine if countries competed with each other to create the best environment in which social innovation can occur. And imagine if social entrepreneurs were actively encouraged and supported in...
Tags: Philanthropy, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, World Economic Forum, Global Redesign Initiative Six months after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ravaged Haiti, much attention has shifted to other needs and other crises elsewhere. But the Caribbean nation is still very much in crisis, and, as the...
Tags: Health, Education, Philanthropy, Haiti earthquake, socioeconomic development, livelihoods “How will volunteers support this initiative?”
Simply posing that question to potential grantees would cause organizations to think about the role of volunteers in their work, and might even open...
Tags: Philanthropy, Foundations, Volunteers In 2008, hundreds of thousands of citizens engaged in the political process, some mobilizing others to vote for the first time. To both describe and recapture that activism, Matt Leighninger of the...
Tags: Philanthropy, civic engagement, community organizing, deliberative democracy, Matt Leighninger, WK Kellogg Foundation Foundation officers often mistakenly seek to apply scientific principles to complex social problems. And, civil society is endangered by an increasing market mentality on the part of new nonprofit...
Tags: Philanthropy, Civil Society, M&E 
