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Betting on Migration for Impact
GDI Director Jason Wendle writes in Stanford Social Innovation Review about transformative migration efforts, building off his work with Malengo, Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP)...
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What’s Your Endgame?
An endgame is the specific role that a nonprofit intends to play in the overall solution to a social problem, once it has proven the effectiveness of its core model or intervention...
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More Than the Sum of its Parts: Making Multi-stakeholder Initiatives Work
Now more than ever, solving the world’s most pressing problems requires the kind of systems-level change that can only be addressed by collective action......
- Read more about Mapping the Unseen Economy: Expanding Traditional Skill Frameworks to Recognize and Utilize Unpaid Work
Mapping the Unseen Economy: Expanding Traditional Skill Frameworks to Recognize and Utilize Unpaid Work
Globally, women spend 2.8 more hours per day on unpaid care and domestic work than men, accumulating to 6 to 7 additional years over their working lives. These activitie...
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The State of Rural Youth
Youth employment is a global challenge. Of the 1.8 billion youth worldwide, a third are out of school, unemployed or working in informal jobs. 90 percent live in developi...
- Read more about Uplifting Home-Based Childcare: A Systems Approach to Impact
Uplifting Home-Based Childcare: A Systems Approach to Impact
What does it take to prompt mindset and behavior changes for communities, decision-makers, and funders so that they consistently back, invest in, and acknowledge home-based childca...
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Shared Services Platform Holds First Annual Leadership Workshop
Daraja – Shared Services Platform, a GDI initiative that aims to drive sustainable development in Africa by providing an efficient, risk-free, and impact-driven investment pathwa...
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Global Opportunity Youth Network Case Studies: Innovative Approaches to Address Youth Unemployment in Brazil and India
The Global Opportunity Youth Network, a multi-stakeholder initiative hosted at The Aspen Institute and managed in partnership with GDI, recently published two short case studie...
- Read more about GDI’s 2023 Year in Review and What’s Ahead for 2024
GDI’s 2023 Year in Review and What’s Ahead for 2024
We are hopeful. In a year of daunting news – devastating conflict, sliding toward climate catastrophe, inclusive societies at risk around the world – we remain optimistic. We'v...
- Read more about Decarbonizing Water: Applying the Voluntary Carbon Market toward Global Water Security
Decarbonizing Water: Applying the Voluntary Carbon Market toward Global Water Security
GDI-incubated Resilient Water Accelerator recently published their new report revealing that by supporting improved access to clean water for vulnerable communities, over 1.6 billi...
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Aceli Africa Year 3 Learning Report
Aceli Africa’s Year 3 Learning Report shares data and case studies drawn from 1,567 agriculture loans totaling $152M, more than double the volume captured in our...
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Often Shut Out of the Financial System, Refugees and Other Migrants Face Economic Integration Challenges
GDI team member, Ting Zhang, published an article featured in Migration Policy Institute where she reflects on the importance of financial inclusion and challenges for refugees and...
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How to Develop Policies for New Organizations
Two of the most frequent questions we get from entrepreneurs upon creating their new organizations are “What policies do I need?” and “What template should I use for them?”...
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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...
