This paper argues that social entrepreneurs have a role to play in turning the tide on global issues as exemplified by the Millennium Development Goals, where innovative entrepreneurship interventions are critical. The paper introduces the individualist and the contextualist schools of social...

This 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 social investment. How can one...

This paper reviews the philanthropy landscape in Russia, analyzing strategies to obtain social impact. The article suggests to view grantee organizations as complex systems, whose behavior can follow one of the following patterns: goal-seeking, oscillation, overshoot and collapse, or low-level...

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 the role of awards in accelerating positive social change. Awards are an expression of the fundamental human desire to share, celebrate and recognize. But what is the real impact an award has upon the recipient and upon the organization that grants it? And is the...

Against the background of extremely high transaction costs in the nonprofit sector, this paper analyzes how philanthropic funding can be targeted in appropriate ways to social entrepreneurs, depending on their being quot;public goodquot; or private goodquot; social entrepreneurs. quot;Public...

This paper asks how foundation assets can be invested for greater social impact without sacrificing financial return objectives - for example, by investing in social enterprises. In organizing the socio-economic activity outside the public sector two options are generally available. At one end...

This paper introduces the concept of change communities in philanthropy. As they reshape social realities, many philanthropists realize that not everything can be accomplished alone. Increasingly, philanthropists therefore start to build quot;change communitiesquot; - groups of experts and...

This paper provides a conceptual framework for a social agenda for commodity businesses, mapping the different action options. Providing basic and high-value commodities, the extractive industry fulfills a fundamental economic need. Operating in a wide variety of geographical and climatic...

Against the background of extremely high transaction costs in the nonprofit sector, this paper analyzes how philanthropic funding can be targeted in appropriate ways to social entrepreneurs, depending on their being quot;public goodquot; or private goodquot; social entrepreneurs. quot;Public...