This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research in behavioral economics has shown that small changes in the environment can make it easier for people to act and make decisions that support their goals. The Behavioral Interventions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates, Jeff Skoll and others joined forces this week to launch Co-Impact, a philanthropic collaborative already committed to investing $500 million in global health, education and economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The BIAS team has done a remarkable job in a short period of designing and implementing 15 tests of low-cost behavioral interventions to improve the efficacy of key U.S. poverty…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Do museums have a responsibility to reckon with the source of a donor’s wealth? The question has come up numerous times in recent history, from the conservative Koch brothers’ support of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each year The Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) at The University of Pennsylvania puts together a list of high-impact organizations. The following are the 2018 selections. Give to one…
Imagine that there’s a very low probability something’s going to work, let’s say a perpetual motion machine. We have strong reason to believe that it won’t work. Then it doesn’t…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With so many urgent societal problems needing time, attention and resources aimed at solutions, do we really need to invest in understanding and improving the way people give money away?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Blue Meridian Partners’ investments in Nurse-Family Partnership and Youth Villages are #3 and #5 respectively in the 2016’s top ten “big bets in philanthropy”, which are gifts of $25 million…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Access to early education significantly reduces students’ chances of being placed in special education or held back in school and increases their prospects of graduating high school, according to new research…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Charities and funders are tackling difficult issues with limited resources: trying to improve people’s lives, tackle injustices, change government policies and help cure diseases. We need to use evidence effectively…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late August, a man traveling on a small, packed bus headed for the Malagasy capital, Antananarivo, passed away suddenly of respiratory failure. His body was taken to the nearest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The education pathway starts at birth and has four phases: Early Childhood (prenatal to 3rd grade), Primary (K to 8th grade), Middle/Secondary (6th to 12th grade), and Secondary/Postsecondary (ages 16…