Search Results for 'climate'
Interview – Cathy and Peter Halstead
Cathy and Peter Halstead have a team of eight people at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors working with them. Having helped them think through the directions their philanthropy would take and the level of funding of their …
IGNIA Fund raises USD102 million for social investment
IGNIA Fund I, LP Latin America’s first and largest impact investing fund, has reached USD102 million – a sum it will use to serve businesses at the base of the socioeconomic pyramid. Despite the economic …
Governing the Biosphere Economy
In 1492 Christopher Columbus landed on what he thought were the shores of India – except he had discovered a new continent. The ‘business case’ he presented to lure his funders was based on a …
Interview – Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose primary interests are in fundamental questions in physics, especially those concerning elementary particles and their interactions and cosmological implications. TIME Magazine has called him one of the 100 …
Interview – Niklas Zennström
Niklas Zennström, along with his partner Janus Friis, founded Skype in 2003; sold to eBay in 2005, Skype is now used by millions of people the world over. What were the most important lessons he …
Interview – Richard Branson
Through Virgin Unite and other initiatives, the combined forces of the Virgin empire are being brought to bear on social and environmental questions. Does the Virgin Group’s commercial success have anything to tell it about …
Collaborative philanthropy as a way to scale
The environmental challenges that foundations seek to address are increasingly complex and systemic in nature. Foundations struggle to achieve impact in the best of times. It can be challenging for a small team to build …
Femina HIP – 10 years to reach 10 million
Femina HIP, the citizen media initiative, started as a small project in Tanzania in 1999. By 2010, Femina had become the country’s biggest ‘citizen’ media platform, and a significant shaper of contemporary culture and values, …
Sustainable public transport for all
Founded in 2001, with an initial investment from the Shell Foundation, EMBARQ – the World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport aims to catalyse environmentally and financially sustainable solutions to pollution, traffic congestion and other …
Civil society, aid and security post-9/11: challenges and dilemmas
Following President Bush’s declaration of a ‘war on terror’ in 2001, governments around the world introduced a range of counter-terrorist legislation, policies and practices. These included first-order measures aimed specifically at suspected terrorists, such as …