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Jan 29, 2007
Measles Mortality Declines 60 Percent in Six Years
The World Health Organization announced last week that its Measles Initiative has been successful at decreasing worldwide measles deaths by 60 percent since it began in 1999. The challenge now will be to sustain and expand.
Jan 26, 2007
Tax Incentives Spur the Generous
There is, it turns out, a strong link between tax breaks and philanthropic giving - but not the one that many cynics assume. Tax breaks don’t determine whether a donor gives but are important in determining how much she gives.
Jan 24, 2007
Urban Migration: A Solution Bred from No Alternative
More than 200 million Chinese from rural areas are migrating to cities in search of work, often leaving their children behind. While this move toward the city seems inexorable, some creative people are thinking up ways to present the rural poor with alternatives.
Jan 02, 2007
2006 Charitable Giving Beats Records
The top fifteen pledged gifts for 2006 totalled fifteen times more than the top fifteen for 2005. But all this largesse comes back to just one source: Warren Buffett.
Dec 30, 2006
Education in Africa
Countries such as Mali are registering close to a thousand children in schools that employ only three teachers and have no or few textbooks.
Dec 18, 2006
Bush Ramps Up Anti-Malaria Initiative
The $1.2 billion President’s Malaria Initiative is aimed at eradicating malaria in regions prone to the disease through a multipronged effort of treatment and prevention.
Dec 12, 2006
Microlending Highlights Rift Between Nonprofits and Social Businesses
For-profit ventures with a social mission have the benefit of an automatic yardstick to measure whether their approach is working: profitability. Except that profitability is not the only way to measure whether something works, and as the trend in philanthropreneurship gains momentum it might usurp nonprofit funding.
Nov 24, 2006
What Works, An Analysis
A recent New York Times article highlights eight programs that work to reduce poverty in the developing world. An article like this one puts a stake in the ground with a focus on the effectiveness of anti-poverty efforts. But it doesn’t do away with the need to apply general knowledge to specific situations.
Nov 20, 2006
Annual Philanthropy Reports: The Highlights
This year’s philanthropy specials published by The New York Times and Slate focused largely on the nascent phenomenon of hybrid philanthropy, or the marriage of for-profit initiatives with social causes. Despite the commitment of its adherents, it remains to be seen whether this business-centric approach to philanthropy can produce better results than its predecessor.
Nov 15, 2006
Venture Philanthropy or Just Effective Philanthropy
A process of revolution resulting in evolution is happening in the philanthropy sector on account of the ‘venture’ philanthropy movement of the late-1990s.