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MethaneSAT’s Mission Has Begun
On the morning of March 4, 2024, one million pounds of liquid oxygen and RP-1 rocket fuel were pumped into a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket that stood on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4 East in Santa Barbara County, California. It was an ordinary workday for the Falcon-9, which has successfully completed more than […]
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May 19, 2021
Managing Through Complexity With Team Of Teams: How One Acre Fund Exemplifies The Future Of Work
The emerging team-of-teams organizational model offers a way to organize people that aligns beautifully with the future of work, minimizing challenges that can arise from remote, dispersed, and digital work practices. One Acre Fund provides a stellar example of how to make the most of this model.
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January 20, 2021
A Better Resolution for the New Year: Set Attainable Goals
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed led BRAC to become one of the largest nonprofits in the world, in part by applying the science of goal setting. In this era of great challenge, we can all resolve to follow in his footsteps by working to set achievable goals that will make a real difference in our world.
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December 23, 2020
A Letter from Our Founders: Top 10 Themes of 2020
In their 2020 Founders’ Letter, Bob and Dottie King review key themes that reflect the work of King Philanthropies over the preceding year.
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December 17, 2020
Prepare for a Post-Pandemic World: But, First, Feed the Children
Children may be the biggest victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, due to indirect effects of hunger and malnutrition. Yet high performing social sector organizations provide opportunities for donors to make a difference, with cost-effective interventions that can save millions of children.
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September 10, 2020
Back to School: Eastside Prep Adapts to New Crises with Back-to-Basics Leadership
Eastside Prep, a high-performing nonprofit organization that equips disadvantaged students to thrive, is nimbly reckoning with the Covid-19 crisis, the struggle for racial justice, and other outsized challenges.
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July 29, 2020
Announcing the King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI)
With a $25 million gift from King Philanthropies, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT launches an initiative to combat both climate change and poverty through scalable, evidence-based solutions.
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May 29, 2020
Turning Our Education Crisis Into Opportunity: Lessons From High-Performing Nonprofits
Two exceptional nonprofits, Pratham and CAMFED, are turning the Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity to improve service delivery and access to education for students in India and Africa.
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March 20, 2020
Fight by Focusing: As Coronavirus Spreads, Lessons from Last Mile Health
Even amid crises, high-performing nonprofits like Last Mile Health thrive by adhering to a clear, focused mission—and by resisting the temptation to be all things to all stakeholders.
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February 13, 2020
Pay-It-Forward Scaling: A Powerful New Approach Exemplified by CAMFED
Nonprofits today are under pressure to scale their impact by finding new sources of revenue and by expanding their pipeline of future leaders. CAMFED demonstrates the power of “pay-it-forward scaling” to achieve those goals.
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