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...

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...

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...

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...

This paper analyzes underlying sustainability issues in the emerging social investment landscape. Deploying social enterprise as an umbrella term, it argues that when asking how to best finance a social venture, one first needs to gain clarity about the inherent sustainability of the underlying...