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The promise of innovative finance is to unlock billions—if not trillions—of dollars in private sector capital to address the world’s most critical challenges. This big and bold promise is making …

The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC), the organization I founded with many dear friends and fellow activists in 1984, is now over three decades old. While …

Think about this for a minute: every year, a third of the world’s food -1.2 billion metric tons - is either lost or wasted. This has both economic and environmental consequences, …

When it comes to developing women leaders in Corporate America the numbers don't lie: only 27 Fortune 500 companies are currently run by women, and women only represent 20 percent …

Last week was the World Health Assembly, an annual gathering where the world’s health leaders take stock of progress to improve health and wellbeing, and set the global health agenda …

Daily images of drought are a stark reminder of the importance of food for human health and prosperity. And while we know that agriculture is the economic backbone of most …

In early May 2017 we joined food technology innovators and entrepreneurs at the 3rd annual Seeds and Chips Global Food Innovation Summit. The conference featured a keynote address by former …

  Climate change efforts have progressively evolved from top-down policy initiatives to bottom-up civil society participation and private sector implementation. Public and private institutional investors have both the capacity and appetite …

“Philanthropy is risk capital.” If you work in philanthropy, you’ve likely heard that phrase many times. But a survey conducted by Open Road Alliance in 2015 clearly showed that as a …

According to the World Bank Development Report on Digital Dividends (2016), the rapid spread of digital technologies around the world is boosting economic growth and expands opportunities in many instances; …