Social entrepreneurship is an important driver of global change. There is a sense that it might be the key ingredient to a new social contract for the 21st century. Though referred to extensively as a concept, there is no single definition of the subject. Defined as finding ways to combine...

The paper identifies and analyzes the four main fault lines which will influence the next decades of global philanthropy. All are related to what we can refer to as "the market revolution in global philanthropy". As global philanthropy moves beyond grantmaking, into investment approaches that...

This paper analyzes the interplay of creativity and control issues in philanthropy. Around the world, the nonprofit sector faces both rising ambition levels and rising legitimacy challenges. Over the past few years philanthropy has entered an impressive phase of creativity. New people, new...

Venture philanthropy is unlikely to displace more established patterns of philanthropic giving, but has comparative advantage with respect to a specific set of social challenges and innovation potential. This article first gives a brief overview of the main characteristics of the European...

Leadership means influencing highly complex, interactive, interdependent and often intangible processes where individuals and groups build social realities. Effective leadership thus requires a range of orientations and capacities which are not often found together, and which cannot easily be...

This paper develops a decision framework for environmental philanthropy in search of achieving sustainability on a crowded planet. Many of the world's most pressing global challenges are environmental in nature (or have stark environmental implications) and require long-term efforts. Asking what...

This paper analyzes the interplay of creativity and control issues in philanthropy. Around the world, the nonprofit sector faces both rising ambition levels and rising legitimacy challenges. Over the past few years philanthropy has entered an impressive phase of creativity. New people, new...

This paper analyzes the interplay of creativity and control issues in philanthropy. Around the world, the nonprofit sector faces both rising ambition levels and rising legitimacy challenges. Over the past few years philanthropy has entered an impressive phase of creativity. New people, new...

This paper analyzes the interplay of creativity and control issues in philanthropy. Around the world, the nonprofit sector faces both rising ambition levels and rising legitimacy challenges. Over the past few years philanthropy has entered an impressive phase of creativity. New people, new...