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The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress

The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…

Foundation Strategy

Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders

Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.

Inclusive Markets
Why Many AI Pilots Stall and What We Can Do Differently
April 9, 2026
Lavanya Kapoor Abhishek Khanna
In the Global South, many AI initiatives struggle once they move beyond pilot stages, and the reason is often misunderstood.
Inclusive Markets
Managing Heat: From Worker Welfare to Business Resilience
April 2, 2026
Sujata Rathi Sarthak Shah Siddhant Sethi
Addressing the impacts of heat on workers, workplaces, and supply chains can deliver significant benefits
Foundation Strategy Inclusive Markets
Beyond the Desk: Why Primary Research Matters for Social Impact Programming
February 25, 2026
Abhishek Khanna Lavanya Kapoor
Primary research reveals the barriers and lived realities that AI misses—insights essential to designing programs that deliver real impact.
Inclusive Markets
Pilots That Never Fail but Never Scale: Tackling the SME Adoption Challenge
November 20, 2025
Abhishek Khanna Sarthak Shah Nikhil Bumb
Across industries, many initiatives become trapped in what we call the “pilots that never fail but never scale” phenomenon
Global Health Inclusive Markets
Beyond Infrastructure: Why the WASH Sector Needs Local Private Providers to Reach the Underserved
October 9, 2025
Abhishek Khanna Lavanya Kapoor
Our experience shows that formal partnerships with local WASH providers can serve three to four times more people per dollar invested than traditional infrastr…
Global Development Inclusive Markets
Market-Based Solutions: How Philanthropy Can Facilitate Sustainable, Scalable Impact through Markets
July 15, 2025
Vignesh Shankar Rahul Singh
Funders working in the Global South can incorporate market-based solutions to widen the development resource pool and build pathways for sustainable, large-sca…
Corporate/CSR Economic Development Inclusive Markets
Financial Inclusion: Three Opportunities for Corporate Philanthropy in 2024
February 13, 2024
Chris Carlson Lakshmi Iyer Erin Sullivan
When it comes to financial inclusion and wealth building, companies have an incredible array of tools in this arena.
Corporate/CSR Environment Inclusive Markets Shared Value
Be Authentic, Do the Math, and Change How Your Business and Markets Operate
August 23, 2022
Marc Pfitzer
How businesses can integrate ESG efforts into their core business models to advance both societal and financial targets.
Global Health Inclusive Markets
Viable Sanitation Enterprises—The Linchpin in Sanitation Markets
February 17, 2021
Abhishek Khanna
Shukla Shauchalay is located in a bustling market in Samastipur in Bihar, India. The entrepreneur first got involved in the sanitation business a decade ago as…
Gender Inclusive Markets
Investing in Women: A Powerful Approach for Investors in India
February 4, 2021
Sujata Rathi Flynn Lebus Laura Amaya
Gender-lens or gender-smart investing refers to investments that achieve greater social and financial return on investment by focusing on businesses that are o…

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