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 ...

We judge philanthropic capital's impact by what it builds while it is building. We should judge by what stands, without it, ...

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 ...

What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question ...

It requires renegotiating the social contract that underlies education—who holds power, who earns trust, who gets to make ...

Business as usual is failing the planet and all of us. Our economy is not creating a livable society for most people. It is fueling climate change, worsening wealth inequality, seeding the conditions ...

In NBC’s The Good Place, the entire system of the afterlife is thrown into chaos because of one central flaw: The way data about people’s lives is collected and used is completely opaque. Characters ...

The size of the worldwide impact investing market has now crossed the trillion-dollar mark, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). However, together with that impressive scale it is ...

Roughly a decade ago, a coalition of industry leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations in an American city tried to pass a ballot measure for a tax increase. The tax aimed to raise ...

The concept of “strategic philanthropy” has been around for a while. While there is some variation in how it is defined, key elements were laid out nearly a decade ago: “outcome-oriented, ...