Last week I was fortunate to attend The Economics of Peace Conference, sponsored by the Praxis Peace Institute and RSF Social Finance. The conference called for engaged citizens from the U.S. and abroad to come together to help forge a new more »
Hope everyone had a great summer. My fall started with attending the Social Capitol Conference in SF. It was a unique blend of investment managers, philanthropists advisors, businesses, social entrepreneurs, technies, environmentalists, nonprofits, academics and government officials. Sona Shal, more »
New Sustainability Survey: Nonprofits Drive Sustainability; Corporations Lag Behind A new survey from SustainAblity and Global Scan interviewed 1600 experts from 90n countries on a variety of sustainability issues. Respondents clearly felt that NGOs and social enterprises are leading more »
On July 1, 2009 President Obama launched a Social Innovation Fund which will be used to scale up the best non-profit ideas. Melody Barnes has been appointed to run the Innovation Fund, encouragingly, given the danger that money in this more »
Michelle Obama opened the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco last month. “This new Obama administration doesn’t view service as something separate from our national priorities,” she told the National Conference on Volunteering and Service as she more »
The recent OnPhilantrophy Summit had an interesting panel on partnerships. The Power of Partnerships: This panel, moderated by Fortune Editor-at-Large Pattie Sellers, focused on a group of complex partnerships created to tackle equally complex problems in global health. A brand-new more »
While there is a lot of talk about public-private partnerships, there is also confusion about the term. Part of this stems from the definition of “private sector”. There is general agreement that the public sector is government and the private more »
As part of the research for my book, I have been reading a book called, The Globalization Gap by Robert Isaak. He includes a lovely quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937. I think that it very relevant for our more »
This site is dedicated to fostering collective and collaborative action, among a wide array of stakeholders, to address complex nature of local and global reaching problems. This blog provides a forum for sharing tools, best practices and revolutionary new ways more »
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