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Measuring social impact is a quixotic pursuit. We both should know. Over the last several years, each of us has worked at leading social investment funds—Root Capital and Acumen Fund—measuring, ...

In early 2010, leaders from the Hub network gathered near Amsterdam for what amounted to an emergency meeting. Efforts to create a reliable structure for sustaining growth at the global level had led ...

One of the latest trends in the development world is leadership localization, a term that describes a usually Western ...

The late Carol Sanford’s The Regenerative Life was published in 2020, but in a world that is degenerating rapidly, it’s even ...

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and director of the Earth Institute, is one of our leading public intellectuals. A trained economist (who became a full professor at Harvard University ...

The Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective was created to fund work led by and for communities most impacted by ...

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Everyone in the social sector, it seems, is discussing how to use data to deliver social good. The coming years will no doubt see the continued growth in data-driven nonprofits and social businesses, ...