Excerpted from widely read "Surveying Social Entrepreneurship" (which was first circulated in summer of 2003 and later published at the University of St. Gallen in 2004, here abridged for publication in Viewpoints 2004), this paper reviews social entrepreneurship as a specific form of...

Over the past few years, social entrepreneurship has captured the imagination of development and social policy practitioners. The term is rapidly becoming shorthand for the performance revolution in the social sector. Social entrepreneurship may well hold the key to address the crisis of the...

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 is written in Spanish. The paper analyzes how to create leverage in philanthropy. A strategic approach to designing programs or selecting grantees is often a necessary condition for leverage, identifying the intervention that creates the greatest positive impact at a given level of...

Given that access to energy is a fundamental human need on the one hand, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) on the other is critical to keep human civilization as we know it viable beyond the twenty-first century, the global community is tasked to chart an appropriate course toward...

This article asks how philanthropists can make a difference over long periods in a changing world. From a structural point of view, philanthropic foundations can be designed to operate in the very long run, in principle in perpetuity. For example, the largest charitable grant-giver to...

This paper analyzes philanthropic strategies to engage climate change. Since the turn of the millennium there has been growing venture capital interest in the broad area of clean technology. Much of that investment - over 50% - has been directed towards the energy sector on technology for energy...

This paper analyzes the optimal division of labor between foundations and the public sector. Philanthropists enjoy more personal degrees of freedom than leverage over social systems, because public resources vastly exceed philanthropic resources. Given this dynamic, engaging the public sector is...