In Liverpool, an exhausted homeless shelter worker puts her head in her hands at the end of another long day. The system she works in is failing the people it is supposed to serve, and she feels ...

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Impact investing arises from a deep desire to use finance to address complex societal challenges such as poverty, climate change, and gender inequality. Yet, despite significant capital mobilization, ...

On the last day of October 2022, as the Supreme Court heard challenges to the admissions policies at Harvard and the ...

An enduring societal challenge the world over is a “perspective deficit” in collective decision-making. Whether within a single business, at the local community level, or the international level, some ...

There are two big things to notice here. The first is that while most potential donors don’t think there’s that much difference in effectiveness between charities, the experts polled think there’s a ...

Designing DEI that lasts requires that organizations find alignment and congruence between strategy, structure, and everyday practice.

Almost a billion people go to bed hungry every night yet the World Food Program believes that the existing knowledge, tools, and policies, combined with political will, can solve this problem. In 2008 ...

As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential ...

Fifteen years ago, I started doing research on the challenges of taking nonprofits to scale. The topic was still under the radar both in the university and out in the field. My focus was growth ...

The Spring 2026 cover story examines how to invest in human flourishing in the age of AI. Plus: two important critiques of ...

Why silence, obligation, and dissent mean different things across cultures, and what leaders get wrong when they assume voice ...