Social change organizations in the United States have been accustomed to developing strategies in fairly resilient systems with relatively predictable patterns and behaviors. But the rapid speed, ...

Research shows that neurodivergent employees display tendencies that can boost organizational performance—but too many ...

Philanthropy’s constructive critics, financial activists, and virtually all nonprofits have long argued for a dramatic increase in unrestricted grantmaking. Yet grants untethered from funder ...

It’s a bluebird day, high in the Himalaya, sometime in the late ’90s. The air is bracing, but the morning sun is warm on my skin. The North Ridge of Mt. Everest glistens on the skyline, and there is a ...

It’s old news, by now, that there is little investment in programs that help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) grow in low- and middle-income countries. Almost 10 years ago, an article in this ...

For many in the nonprofit sector, the dizzying pace of rollbacks and new policies in the United States has been nothing short of stunning. Social sector actors are hardly alone in this regard, of ...

Equity, stock, and capacity grants: Nonprofits accepting tools and staffing from AI companies might also receive financial ...

On March 8, 2024, Sam Altman made a triumphant return to the board of OpenAI, the tech start-up whose ChatGPT program has revolutionized generative artificial intelligence. This happened just a few ...

A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. She has extensive training in the science of infectious diseases, but to reach large numbers of ...

In recent years, many in the philanthropic field have realized that even concrete, system-level outcomes are insufficient to produce systems change. True systems change requires solutions to be ...

Our work is not serving communities as well as we think. This may not be the message you’d expect from a corporate-social-responsibility leader. But we are fooling ourselves if we think we can ...

Collaborative philanthropy has surged in the past decade, moving billions of dollars to high-impact ventures. It’s time to dream bigger and reimagine what’s possible. By improving how we unite funders ...