That is a core deficit. Students receiving an entrepreneurial education should be well versed in how power manifests, persists, who holds it, and how it evolves. They must be equally capable of ...

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

The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the Navajo Times saying “feminism is against our culture,” and when I do workshops on the topic, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are living in a new gilded age. As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. Momentous forces ...