As the industry and its financial model become increasingly precarious, a reimagining of how performing arts organizations ...

Consider what the unicorn metric renders invisible. Acumen’s portfolio has reached nearly 800 million low-income people, ...

Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible ...

In that sense, the vanishing developmental commons is a story about the environment and experiences we choose to lean into as ...

Rather than formulating a perfect vision and then trying to elicit compliance from others, effective reform leadership looks ...

More and more people in the social sector seem to believe that the government is the best or even only way to scale. In arguing that “Scale Really Matters,” for instance, Kevin Starr recently argued ...

Each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, leaders of color working in philanthropy across the United States gather to strategize, to vision, and to be in community with one another on an island where Black ...

In previous essays, we’ve discussed how powerful stories can motivate people of different backgrounds to care about and engage with large and complex challenges like reversing climate change or social ...

At Open Philanthropy, a funder and advisor seeking to do as much good as possible with our giving, we are investing in safely reducing incarceration in the United States. Incarceration is a large ...

Have you ever heard of Kalamang? If not, you’re not alone. It’s an endangered language spoken by only 130 people and it has virtually no online presence. That’s one reason why, in 2023, it became the ...

If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 55 minutes defining the question and 5 minutes resolving it.—Albert Einstein Recent years have witnessed an undeniable and dispiriting trend ...