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Viewpoint: Open Source Software Trap: Our Fatal Business Model Flaw
"... as I watch our sector implode under the weight of USAID’s near-total elimination, I realize we’ve built a movement that’s structurally impossible to sustain."
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- Technology
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- Global
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New Report Reveals the Emerging Finance Models to Bridge the Climate Funding Gap
Despite climate and development finance growing, less than 17% of adaptation finance is allocated to building resilience in climate-impacted communities.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Global
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Viewpoint: Word Jumble: When Nonprofits Talk Fancy, America Tunes Out
Our language is packed with elite-sounding jargon. It is ineffective — and dangerous — amid today’s heightened distrust of institutions and growing hostility to the sector.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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Thesis-Driven Funds: A New Model for Transformational Philanthropy
Many wealthy donors are missing out on opportunities to make transformative investments such as creating a new scientific field or sparking the Green Revolution.
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- Investing
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- Global
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DOGE is WEIRD: Why India’s Public Sector Consulting Ecosystem Should Not Follow in America’s Footsteps
As part of its efforts to reduce U.S. government spending, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has taken aim at public expenditures going to private consulting firms. According to Manoshij Banerjee, and Mohammed Shahid Abdulla at IIM Kozhikode, this could inspire similar efforts in emerging markets like India, fundamentally reshaping how these governments approach external expertise. They argue that this would be a mistake, explaining why DOGE's approach is “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic), and why it would be counterproductive to apply it to India’s unique governance landscape.
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Press Release: Humentum and MzN International Partner to Strengthen NGO Capacity Against Geopolitical Headwinds
"This partnership is more than the sum of its parts. It is a practical response to the growing need for NGOs to adapt, modernise, and become more sustainable. "
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome Jointly Mobilize U.S. $11.5 Million to Support the WHO-WMO Climate and Health Programme
The funding will help the WHO-WMO Joint Programme to rapidly accelerate and scale weather and climate insights that feed into health decision-making processes in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Press Release: ADB, CGIAR, and Gates Foundation Partner to Transform Rice Sector, Uplift Millions of Smallholder Farmers in Asia and the Pacific
Initial projects are being developed in Bangladesh, Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, Pakistan, and the Philippines.
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- Agriculture, Investing
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- Global
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