Are you a business with a vision to drive social impact through sustainable development goals? Did you hear that achieving the Global Goals opens up an economic prize of $12 trillion by 2030? Are you ...

Impact Measurement & Management in 2020 We are witnessing one of the most important trends in our lifetime called impact revolution. While this revolution may not be as big as a tech revolution, it ha...

SDG 11 Target and Indicators:  Scaling Community Development   The majority of urban residents breathing poor-quality air, having limited access to transport, and open public spaces. We realized that ...

Global development planning and initiatives have changed immensely in recent decades. There’s been a move from a fragmented approach to a more integrated and aligned strategy thanks to the advent of t...

The climate philanthropy is one of many global mechanisms to fund climate change solutions more rapidly and effectively. And yet, historically, it is estimated that only about 2% of global philanthrop...

Financing the Sustainable Development Goals to achieve all the SDG targets is an international endeavor of huge scale. Some estimate that scale to be $6 trillion annually in order to reach those lofty...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are ostensibly a vision. They’re a shared framework for a path to a better world. But who are they for? Development organizations, non-profits, other social...

The Global Reporting Initiative has been around for decades. It is widely used, but perhaps still not enough.

Two years ago, NextBillion.net published Building a Collaborative Social Impact Measurement Operating System. The article concluded that unless we make the process of collecting, sharing and analyzing...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have challenged both the public and private sector to amplify the outcomes of purpose-driven work, and in many cases to pursue SDG alignment. Part of this chal...