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Preparing young people to participate and govern means moving beyond entrusting civic learning to a single course in high school or an elective on campus.

Many social impact leaders feel pressure to engage with AI but are overwhelmed and lack a clear starting point. Four fundamental questions can help frame early conversations, grounding AI strategy in ...

By Camilla Griffiths, Trevor Smith, Christina Pao & Justin Morgan. Successful advocacy requires not only increasing support on our issues, but inspi ...

By Camilla Griffiths, Trevor Smith, Christina Pao & Justin Morgan. Successful advocacy requires not only increasing support on our issues, but inspi ...

In early 2025, a university in Beirut quietly hit the cumulative break-even point on a philanthropically funded initiative. No one at the funding foundation was running its day-to-day operations. No ...

The nonprofit sector is deeply in debt to individuals who identify a needs gap in their communities and are propelled to launch a formal effort to address that need by founding a 501(c)(3). It takes ...

To test the value of AI, we ran an experiment alongside our annual impact performance assessment run between May and June of this year. As part of this assessment, we use a rating scale (1-4, with ...

Although more and more organizations are taking steps toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, people of color continue to consistently report feeling undervalued, ...

It’s been a decade since the “nonprofit starvation cycle”—the downward spiral of unrealistic funder expectations that ultimately leads to underfunded grantees and continued funder ...