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July 10, 2020
Teachers vs tech
An intervention built on the assumption that teachers can be easily replaced by technology quickly goes awry.
by
Shravan Kumar
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4 min read
July 10, 2020
A donor relationship gone wrong
How a misalignment of expectations led a programme to fail, and an organisation to lose a funder.
by
Sapna Surendran
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5 min read
February 14, 2019
Collaboration doesn’t work. Here’s why.
Given the size and complexity of the problems the social sector is trying to solve, the need for collaboration is obvious. Why then, are people not collaborating?
by
Ananthapadmanabhan Guruswamy
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4 min read
November 23, 2018
Getting the best possible failures in philanthropy
Failures are an inevitable part of philanthropy, but we must ensure that when we do fail, they are good failures.
by
Jen Ford Reedy
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5 min read
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