The current federal data system that we've relied on for decades is collapsing. While alarming, we now have a rare ...

The humble foundation for scaling is often the unimpressive numbers that measure the beginnings of true normative change.

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 ...

As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience ...

AI is narrowing the pathways available to donors for finding nonprofits worthy of support. Nonprofits and the social sector ...

Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for ...

One day not long after the 2016 US presidential election, a white senior colleague asked me—the only Black tenure-line faculty in my college at that time—how Black people felt realizing that racism ...

Collaborative giving has surged over the past 10 years. Indeed, nearly half of the 300-plus collaborative funds—entities that pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits—that ...

How one urban Indigenous organization is working to transform data governance using a model that’s founded on Indigenous values ...

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 ...

Global crises of the past two years have yielded at least one silver lining for nonprofits: They have accelerated a movement among grantmakers to match the duration and flexibility of their funding to ...

For much of their history, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been profoundly underfunded. Charged with educating generations of Black leaders while navigating segregation, ...