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A way to get high-value information to the funders, doers, and thinkers we care about. Snippets, reactions, essays, links: whenever (and only whenever) we have something useful to say.

Dump The Prizes

Kevin Starr
October 23, 2024

Contests, challenges, awards -- they do more harm than good. Let's get rid of them.

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Fear Of Flying

Kevin Starr
June 12, 2024

Travel thoughtfully, probably less, but do get out there if it drives impact.

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Another Day, Another DIB

Kevin Starr
March 17, 2022

A DIB on an ultra-poverty graduation project in Kenya/Uganda has people going nuts over the results. My own reaction was "WTF!"

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Many Roads to Impact

January 27, 2021

If you can’t physically get there – and get there safely – then we’re not going to get much impact.

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Zoomology

Alex Hughes-Smith
June 29, 2020

Zoom was our second home before the whole world moved in – here’s some stuff we've learned along the way.

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Quarterly Links Winter 2019

Alex Hughes-Smith
December 1, 2019

Not-entirely-random stuff for funders and doers obsessed with impact at scale. ​Every 3 months. More or less.

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