The Clinton Global Initiative, UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals, and TEDxChange are only one week away. We present this series of five daily blogs on…
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The Cost – and Impact – of Turning Around a Failing School
“As recently as 2008, Locke High School here was one of the nation’s worst failing schools, and drew national attention for its hallway beatings,…
See event detailsHaiti in Context
The Haiti disaster has all but faded from the headlines. We know the grim numbers: the latest estimates are that more than 250,000 people…
See event detailsThe Gift of Time
So what if your gift for the holidays were an unusual one? What if it were more time? That was precisely the gift presented…
See event detailsCracking the Code on Scale: Lessons from the 2012 GEO Conference
In a world of declining resources, How can donors invest in scaling what works? This is a critical question for all of us concerned with…
See event detailsReal Change for Real People: How investments change lives (Part 5)
The Clinton Global Initiative, UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals, and TEDxChange are only a few days away. We present this series of five daily blogs…
See event detailsNeglected in Research and Development (Part 4)
The Clinton Global Initiative, UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals, and TEDxChange are only one week away. We present this series of five daily blogs on Neglected…
See event detailsHaiti: Focus on Children
In our earlier posts, we discussed the various steps in the transition from immediate relief to recovery to longer-term impact (See: Haiti: “Cutting Through…
See event detailsSchool’s almost out, make sure learning isn’t
It’s June, and many students around the country are really, really ready to be done with school. Unfortunately, for many kids who don’t have access…
See event detailsGiving Conversations: Q&A Interview with Susan Wolf Ditkoff of The Bridgespan Group
Online sites like Strategic Philanthropy’s Give Confidently, and Morgan Stanley’s Perspectives in Philanthropy tap into something we at the Center have long known: stories…
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