From Stanford Social Innovation Review: A collective impact effort in Greater Cincinnati offers a useful framework for evaluating community change. In 2012, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) made a big bet on the ability of collective impact to accelerate systems change. It committed $3.5 million over five years to a number of local “backbone” organizations, […]
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New ‘Impact Security’ Could Revolutionize Philanthropy
From Forbes.com: Catarina Schwab, 43, and Lindsay Beck have set out to completely revolutionize philanthropy. Their firm, NPX, Inc., has introduced a new security to Wall Street called the “Impact security,” which they hope will end the practice of funding nonprofits without impact. Problems in philanthropy Ted Williams, Managing Partner at Springbok Partners and an […]