Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For most US-based foundations, the answer has traditionally been to focus on confined problem areas, projects like reducing malaria incidence, improving school attendance, or increasing access to safe drinking water. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way. And how can philanthropies fund it?

Production 103

Production Entrepreneurship Agriculture Education 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 16, 2023

NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. Current philanthropic work—as a leader of a prominent US-based foundation remarked at a recent Stanford PACS conference—leaves people exhausted. Medicine 2.0 is oriented towards the past: moving away from illness.

Philanthropy 125

Philanthropy Homelessness Psychology Health 125

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me. Typically, we say that the American Dream ideology individualizes and pathologizes poverty. This man has to ward off the specter of elder poverty by becoming a landlord.

Manufacturing 142

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 142