Catalytic Philanthropy

(Community Matters) My friend Mark Kramer says that donors cannot continue to delegate the responsibility for solving social problems to the nonprofit sector alone. “Neither our polarized government nor our fragmented and under-funded nonprofits can assemble the necessary components of large-scale solutions in the same ways that private donors can. Instead, donors must lead change themselves, take direct responsibility for achieving impact, and use every tool at their disposal to obtain the scale of results they seek.” article in Stanford’s Social Innovation Review