Is This the Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy?
June 12, 2012In his Spring 2012 Stanford Social Innovation Review column on “A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy,” Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William a…
Sticker Shock at the Mailbox
June 11, 2012“You have GOT to be kidding me!” I muttered, as I juggled my cell phone, grocery bag, purse, and bike helmet to open the medical bill that just arrived in my m…
A Shared Value Community of Practice
June 11, 2012Eighty-five individuals – mostly senior corporate executives – gathered at the Charles Hotel in Boston on May 31 to spend a day deepening their practice of Sha…
Collective Impact in the UK
June 7, 2012Over at the Guardian website, Tim Cooper has an interesting post pointing to STRIVE (one of the examples of collective impact that my colleagues John Kania and…