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In a previous post, I wrote about the Seven Things You Should Know About Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Here's another post digging deeper into the "how to" of making reforms happen, …

The Rockefeller Foundation has recently commissioned an independent evaluation of our support for cultural innovation. This video on the Queens Museum—whose director was just recently appointed New York City commissioner of …

This post originally appeared on World Fish Centre's blog At the Global Ocean Action Summit in late April, while speaking on a panel I quipped that the Summit’s subtitle, "Action for …

On Monday, HUD Secretary Donovan awarded $920 M of disaster recovery funding to New Jersey, New York State, and New York City for six Rebuild by Design proposals. Rebuild by Design …

This post originally appeared on 100 Resilient Cities. Oscar Santiago Uribe Rocha is Medellín, Colombia's first Chief Resilience Officer (CRO)—the second CRO appointed anywhere in the world. His story is one …

Last month, we released the Digital Storytelling for Social Impact report, and we've been wonderfully overwhelmed with email, Tweets, and comments on the research. All of this feedback clearly demonstrates …

This post is excerpted from a response to 'Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World' in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). One of the most fundamental questions that program officers in foundations …

A version of this post originally appeared on LinkedIn. When I was 22, I learned an important lesson that would deeply influence my life. And it took less than 10 minutes. I …

The World Bank recently published a noble and important report with answers to the question Is anyone reading our reports and publications? They note that nearly 50 percent of their …

This post was co-authored by Min Pease, Impact Investing Manager at Echoing Green. In 2007, we selected Felix Brandon-Lloyd as an Echoing Green Fellow. Felix's organization, Skill-Life, was a game-based platform …