Category: Strategy

By at least one measure, the Kresge Foundation has made the biggest bet, among all national foundations, on the future of Detroit. The question is: What led them to accept the risk?

Here’s a further thought on

Foundations’ passion for grouping their grantees into networks may lead to quicker learning and more efficient operations. But it sometimes leads nowhere at all.

Foundation executives sometimes acknowledge that they live in a kind of information bubble:

A new report shows philanthropy and civil society coming to life in the great emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

In the United States, when we wonder how the philanthropic urge begins, and how it

Behind the latest debate over the business-school doctrine of ‘disruptive innovation’ stands an important question that most of the debaters haven’t asked: Might the idea actually fit philanthropy better than it does business?

A recent article by

A few days after writing about the search for breakthrough innovations in philanthropy, I caught up with the cover story in the latest Stanford Social Innovation Review (Spring 2014), by two consultants with the Monitor Institute, a