Social Entrepreneurship: 60’s Fail 2.0 or Sustainable Revolution?

The 1960’s saw the birth of a counter culture which spawned the modern environmental movement and helped catalyze the civil rights movement. Yet despite slogans of “make love not war” and “back to the land” society…

This quote gets at one of the fundamental failures of the nonprofit system. Institutional funders perceived need for anchor organizations to act as safe hands for their capital.

“If we had more carpenters,” says Jan Masaoka, “they would buy more hammers; they’d drive up demand. A carpenter-driven market would drive quality…

Opting Out: A Modest Proposal

I was speaking at Credit Suisse’s Annual gathering of Conservation Finance professionals in New York a few…

Sharing Your Point of View

What does it mean to have a point of view, and how do you develop it? It’s a question I struggle with as a young professional, balancing my acute awareness of my inexperience with my observations developed along the way. I went to Barnard, which means I was trained to never be…