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Terms Of Reference Podcast
The Terms of Reference Podcast delivers critical, insider information for top performance as a professional or organization in the social impact sector.
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179 EpisodenTOR180: The Global Knowledge Initiative with Sara Farley
You cannot live in today's world without being witness to the power of networks. Networks are all around us and constantly influence us in ways both c...
TOR179: KopaGas with Dr. Sebastian Rodriguez-Sanchez
I take for granted that I can walk away from my microphone right now, head over to my kitchen and turn on my stove to boil water, bake a cake or cook...
TOR178 - Ladies Get Paid and Red Bull Amaphiko with Claire Wasserman
Even though we work on hundreds of different issues across a similarly diverse group of settings, I think the argument could be made that the work of...
TOR177 - The mSTAR project with Troy Etulain of FHI360
If you're an ideas person, no matter what your field or expertise, there is nothing I can think of that is more attractive than a clear, tangible prob...
TOR176 - The International Rescue Committee with Jodi Nelson
The International Rescue Committee is a well known force in humanitarian aid. As the organization has continued to evolve since 1933, they have litera...
TOR175: The SPONGE Project with Sanjay Prasad of IVL
Last week, we dove into an especially practical example of innovating to improve the plight of the agriculturalist. Or, more specifically, those who b...
TOR174 - The Bhungroo Innovation for Agriculture with Trupi Jain of Naireeta Services
One of the things I love most about hosting this podcast is the sheer range of ideas, aspirations and impact I've been lucky enough to listen to over...
TOR173 - Patents for Humanity with Edward Elliot
For most of us seeking to innovate in the social sector, solving existing problems in new ways is accomplished by bringing technologies or processes f...
TOR172 - A New Model For Higher Education with Eric Glustrom of Watson
Long ago, in the days of yore, when I was completing high school and looking to what was next, college was the path of least resistance. Unfortunately...
TOR171 - The Office Of Transition Initiatives with Stephen Lennon
For many years now - and its just crazy that I can say that about this podcast at this stage - I’ve been saying the social sector is filled with lots...
TOR170 - Adding Value To Technology With Indigenous Knowledge with Muthoni Masinde
When you think of innovation, you think about the future, right? At least, that's what I think about. My mind is usually filled with flying cars, holo...
TOR168: The World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator with Bernhard Kowatsch
When I think of innovating for food, well, I have to admit I’m usually focused on how my family can make dinner something special. Finding a way out o...
TOR167: A Strategy For Digital Financial Inclusion with Badal Malick of Catalyst
I know that I take for granted that I am able to perform financial transactions, around the world via a multitude of channels, essentially any time I...
TOR166: Venture Funding For Social Actors With Alix Zwane Of The Global Innovation Fund
Most social sector work, if not all of it at this stage, is driven by some type of results framework that is focused on outcomes. Unsurprisingly, when...
TOR165 - Investing In Freedom Of The Press with Harlan Mandel of MDIF
Its taken me a while to figure out how to introduce today’s topic. Not because its totally radical - but rather, because my brain is freaking out that...
TOR164 - The Power and Promise of Open Contracting with Gavin Hayman
How much money did your government spend in 2016? The Government of the United States spent over $3.5 trillion dollars. China threw down $2.8 trillion...
TOR163: Building Leadership In Advocacy with Jamie Bay Nishi of the Global Health Technologies Coalition
Today’s conversation has two themes that I think are important for our listeners. On one level, you’re going to hear about advocating on behalf of hea...
TOR162 - How Creative Tech Agencies Can Accelerate Social Impact with Sam Applebee of Super Global
For as long as I’ve been in the social sector, there has been a consensus that those organizations who depend mostly on grant funding (whether from go...
TOR161: Supporting The Open Data Movement with Pavel Richter of Open Knowledge International
According to the May 6th, 2017 issue of the Economist, data has officially displaced oil as the world’s most valuable resource. If you’re like me, the...
TOR160: Supporting the Economy of Prestige with Kurt Shaw of the Shine A Light Foundation
You’ve heard me lament more than a few times on this podcast about the fact that innovation in the social sector is often times synonymous with techno...
TOR159: Keeping The Lights On with Noah Klugman and Jay Taneja of Gridwatch
The availability of continuous power - that is, the assumption that you can plug in an appliance, or flip a switch without wondering whether or not el...
TOR158: Why Getting Feedback (Should Be) The Expected Thing To Do with Dennis Whittle
I’d like to start today’s episode with a quick, informal poll. Ask yourself: as a social sector professional, do you regularly receive calls or emails...
TOR157: How Crowdfunding Is Shifting The Financial Landscape For The Social Sector with Jason Best
If there is any one question I get asked more than any other from professionals in the social sector, it is some variation of this: “How do I raise mo...
TOR156: Designing Products For Underserved Populations with Krista Donaldson of D-Rev
A great deal of the actual “work” delivered in the social sector comes in the form of services. Of these services, the lowest hanging fruit is skill b...
TOR155: Empowering Legacy Cities with Lev Gonick of DigitalC
As you may have noticed over the past few months, I’ve been talking more and more about the “social sector.” As I’m sure you’ll have assumed, this has...
TOR154: Understanding Blended Financing with Joan Larrea of Convergence
For as long as I have been a social sector professional, there has always been a desire to do more partnering with the “private sector.” And, by that...
TOR153: Defragmenting agricultural markets with Jason Wendle of the Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab
Because I am something of a super geek, and what I like to think of as the new-old guard (I mean, I had a TRS-80 in my house growing up), when I hear...
TOR152: Embracing Failure And Iteration To Find Sustainable Solutions In The Social Sector with Nithya Ramanathan of Nexleaf Analytics
How much do we really embrace failure in the social sector? I ask this question because, as someone who has been lucky enough to be a part of the eval...
TOR 151: Disrupting Existing Silos Of The Social Sector with Tim France of Inis Communication
One of my favorite things about data analysis is when trends emerge unexpectedly. So often, when sifting through data we find exactly what we’re looki...
TOR150: Testing The Assumptions Of The Social Sector With Chris Blattman Of The University of Chicago
Professor Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago, at the Harris School of Public P...
TOR149: Rethinking the social sector with Paula Kravitz of the Social Progress Imperative
There is a beautiful simplicity to the commercial sector. Anyone can create products and services that satisfy a real or perceived need in whatever ma...
TOR148: How To Leverage Scale And Experience With Jamey Butcher of Chemonics
We’ve be fortunate enough to have guests on this show from across the entire spectrum of the social sector and from around the world. One of the commo...
TOR147: Balancing The Scales For Local Communities With Flaviano Bianchini of Source International
Let's say you woke up tomorrow to the sound of someone knocking at your door. And, when you answer, the person standing outside politely explained tha...
TOR146: How AI And Machine Learning Prove The Journey Is More Important Than The Destination With Dr. Kenneth Stanley
How obsessed are you with goal setting? I mean seriously - if you've been living on planet earth you know that, those invested in the science of achie...
TOR145: High Tech Humanitarians With Giulio Coppi
Two very common themes in the aid and development community are “resource scarcity” (some even call this resource starvation) and “locally driven solu...
TOR144: Innovation To Disrupt Supply Chains With Andrew Lamb Of Field Ready
While we live in a world of unprecedented prosperity for many, we also live in a world that is experiencing unprecedented levels of humanitarian crisi...
TOR143: Effectively Communicating Social Impact With Angus Hervey Of Future Crunch
We've had a lot of change makers on this show over the past two years - people and organizations that are redefining old systems and creating new prod...
TOR142: Creating An Innovation Mindset With Corrine Gray Of UNHCR
One reason that innovation has become one of those words that you just cannot escape in social impact, is the fact that the institutions that have occ...
TOR141: The Power Of The Impact Evaluation Revolution With David Evans Of The World Bank
I invite you to pause just for a second and take a moment to think about the last time you changed your mind about something. Specifically, I'd like f...
TOR140: Communicating Effectively At Scale About Human Exploitation With Tara Dermott Of IOM X
So, imagine for a moment that you're a college student getting ready to spend a summer working internationally. Maybe in a hotel in a tropical resort,...