(Photo Credit: Ken Teegardin, licensed under CC BY 2.0) Sometime in the next month or so, I’m going to sit down at my dining room table, open up a file folder stuffed with paper, and double-click on TurboTax. Then, like most Americans, I’m going to fill out forms that connect me to my government – forms …
Community members in Dallas, Texas, rally in support of strong clean energy policies. (Photo Credit: Sierra Club, used with permission) Recent news from the Supreme Court may have raised some questions about U.S. climate change policy, but it hasn’t changed the inevitability of the country’s shift to clean energy. On February 9, the Supreme Court …
Policymakers diverting funds earmarked for long-term investments to pay for immediate political fire-fighting, then using accounting technicalities to conceal their budgetary sleight of hand. NGOs calling attention to the high-stakes shell game, only to see the government practices worsen the next year. This all sounds depressingly familiar, doesn’t it? What’s surprising is where it’s happening: …
Deeper Learning. Linked Learning. Blended Learning. Personalized Learning. Student-centered Learning. Project-based learning. Social and emotional learning. And the list goes on (and on). There are literally hundreds of education initiatives—and an equal number of philanthropic strategies—designed to improve our education system. In my time as fellow at the Hewlett Foundation, I have come to realize …
Nicholas Burnett has been Managing Director for Global Education at Results for Development since 2010 and now also chairs IIEP’s Governing Board. He was previously UNESCO Assistant-Director for Education, Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, and a World Bank human development manager. A version of this post appeared on the Center for Education …
One of the members of the Nairobi Young and Old cooperative group in front of her fruit and vegetable stand in a local market in Nairobi. This income generating activity enables her to have some financial independence and not rely on her husband, when spending money on health and education for her children. (Photo Credit: Jonathan …
2015 was a great year for people who believe that openness can drive change. It was a year in which governments around the world, including many here in the United States, embraced new policies requiring open licenses for work they fund. Major private funders did the same, like Gates and Ford (in addition to us), …
Courage comes in many forms. We see it most clearly in the organizations we support to ensure that women around the world have access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion. These organizations are made up of people who do their work under extraordinarily trying conditions. Overseas, they must stretch scarce resources and find creative …
(Photo Credit: Janet Ramsden, licensed under CC BY 2.0) As people around here headed out the door for a week of vacation filled with family, friends, and yes, Christmas presents, I asked a few of my colleagues in the Global Development and Population Program what gifts they’d already gotten this year from our grantees. Puzzled, one colleague …
It’s that time of year again—glittery solicitations from many worthy (and some not so worthy) nonprofits are piling up like snowdrifts in my mailboxes, both physical and electronic. Like it or not, fundraising for charitable organizations is a competitive sport, and the end of the year can feel like the Winter Olympics! Meanwhile, here at …