Philanthropy 4.0: What Form of Giving Enables Transformative Change?
Investors and funders must abandon the idea that capital alone is sufficient to transform inequitable systems. They must interrogate the power dynamics underlying their decisions and operations to meet the complex challenges of racial, gender, and economic inequality, moving from a “power over” to a “power with” approach. Failure to integrate this ... See more
Stanford Social Innovation Review • Impact Investors Need to Share Power, Not Just Capital (SSIR)
It is personal. Relational. Institutional. Global.
C Otto Scharmer, Peter Senge (Foreword) • Theory U
Since we don’t know in advance what will work to change or shift a system, we spread our bets, much in the same way a venture capitalist will spread risk by betting on a range of start-ups in the hope that at least a few will succeed.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
A single type of capital is not sufficient to finance interventions as holistic as this. So we need to be asking ourselves, how do we create investment programmes which contain multiple pots of money within it and deploy multiple different types of capital? What are the most appropriate legal wrappers and governance structures?
And how might it need... See more
And how might it need... See more
Ivana Gazibara • Transition mapping: a strategic blueprint for capital allocators?
Kritik der großen Geste: Anders über gesellschaftliche Transformation nachdenken (Beck Paperback 6571) (German Edition)
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