Nowhere Left to Hide: Driving Climate Action at Scale
Climate change is well underway, even if we succeed in cutting emissions or achieving the 1.5°C goal. While mitigation is necessary, the longer we put off adaptation, the more vul...
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FinYouth: Scaling Effective Financing Mechanisms for Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship
The FinYouth report was developed by the Global Development Incubator in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and the Global Opportunity Youth Network (GOYN), a program ...
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GDI Profiles: Curious People and Human-Centered Approaches to Social Impact
As the first installment of this series, we spoke with two members of our US-based Strategy and Build team, Alizah and Ben. Within their roles, Strategy and Build team me...
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How to Effectively Onboard New Team Members
Congratulations! You and your team have spent hours implementing your talent acquisition plan to find the ideal candidate to join your social impact organization. Now what? ...
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What Does It Mean to Embed Kindness, Dignity, and Compassion into Systems?
GDI’s Managing Director, Chintan Maru, shares his portfolio of efforts, which tie together the themes of embedding compassion, dignity, and kindness into systems, espec...
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GDI’s 2022 Year in Review
GDI is coming up on its eighth year since our founding in 2014. We continue to be guided by our core values: we stand on integrity; we follow our curiosity; we’re doers...
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GDI’s Efforts to Localize Development
Over the last year, we’ve explored how GDI can help accelerate the field to localize development, unpacking the supply and demand barriers and outlining a series of int...
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Discovery Case Study: Market Incentives for Off-Grid Renewable Energy
Testing the effectiveness and scalability of new, innovative ideas requires resources that non-profit startups often lack. To help solve this challenge, GDI invests its unrestricte...
- Read more about Guidance for Non-Profit Board Management – Part 2: Auditing
Guidance for Non-Profit Board Management – Part 2: Auditing
Audit Committee PurposeThe Audit Committee’s primary role is to oversee the audit process, including identifying the scope of the audit, selecting the auditor, conside...
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Guidance for Non-Profit Board Management – Part 1: Finance
An essential element for the success of a new non-profit organization is effective board oversight and engagement. In GDI’s experience, one of the more challenging area...
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Localizing Development: Identifying Barriers, Solutions, and Opportunities
When we began our exploration of localizing development we started with a hypothesis:There are structural barriers that are limiting both donors and recipients from maki...
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Localizing Development: Proposed Supply Solutions to Overcome Barriers
In our last article we explored potential solutions to address barriers for domestically registered organizations to receive international funding. In addition to those...
