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Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024
What does 2024 mean for the future of social impact?
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Leveraging Historic Federal Investment: Roles for Communities, Companies, and Funders
How three key groups of stakeholders can help realize the potential of federal investment in a new wave of…
Creating Shared Value for Smallholder Farmers
January 21, 2016This foreword appears in Root Capital's issue brief: Investing in Resilience: A Shared Value Approach to Agricultural Extension
New Platform for Engaging Philanthropists in Global Development
July 31, 2015There has been a lot of coverage of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa earlier this month, and most of it is pretty…
Integrated Development—What Is It and Why Should We Care?
July 7, 2015Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel as a side event to the InterAction Forum to discuss integrated approaches to development. Practitioners fr…
It Pays for the Extractives Industry to Consider Social Benefits
May 27, 2015“There’s something like $25 billion worth of mining projects tied up or stopped by local communities’ opposition to extractive activities,” Mark Cutifani, chie…
INGOs of the Future: Redefining the Vanguard of Corporate-Nonprofit Partnership
April 1, 2015This article was originally published in DevexImpact, as a part of the #FutureINGO series.Bricolage, or tinkering in French, is an increasingly common term in …
Social Enterprise: The Unfulfilled Promise
March 2, 2015Social enterprise or market-based solutions—businesses that engage the poor either as customers or suppliers—have been among the most exciting trends in the de…
New on Business Fights Poverty Blog: Global Partnerships for a Post-2015 World
March 31, 2014Read Global Partnerships for a Post-2015 WorldIn a new blog on Business Fights Poverty’s “Post 2015 Zone,” FSG’s Sonja Patscheke discusses the potential of col…
USAID and INGOs – Traveling a New Path Together
March 17, 2014The landscape of international development, and the architecture of aid that has traditionally underpinned it, have shifted significantly over the last decade.…
Shaping Global Partnerships for a Post-2015 World
February 18, 2014We have made significant progress against the MDG (Millennium Development Goals) targets, but as the 2015 deadline is fast approaching, large gaps remain to be…
More than Just a Handshake: How Corporate Partners Are Rolling Up Their Sleeves and Making an Impact
January 24, 2014The rise of partnerships between INGOs and corporations is now an established phenomenon. It’s common knowledge that promoting relationships between business …