In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...
Philanthropy should be about making great things happen that would not happen otherwise. One of its best uses is to develop solutions, prove them out, and set them up for scale. Big bets provide an ...
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”—Mark Twain* When philanthropists are passionate about the causes they support, it’s no ...
In 2013, the president of Rwanda asked us for evaluation results from across the continent that could provide lessons for his country’s policy decisions. One program tested in Kenya jumped out, and ...