Amid much discussion about the future of philanthropy, one mystery deserves more attention: Why does the giving of so many ...

Many modern philanthropists are building impact that lasts, though it may not look like the brick-and-mortar projects of ...

For every 100 people contacted, 58 individuals never became active participants. This analysis made the conversion bottleneck ...

Lessons from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis on defending our neighbors and democracy ...

But trying to find a more graceful way to say it led me to the heart of what I believe: Giving can be simple. Giving is human ...

The totality of these interconnected factors is what we call freedom of choice. An analysis of more than 600 cases of ...

Nonprofit governance is tough and getting tougher. As a result, nonprofit boards are increasingly challenged to consistently deliver high-quality governance. Well-intentioned efforts to improve ...

I was interested to read “Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore” in the Summer 2026 issue of Stanford Social Innovation ...

Building power in communities now will protect them from the next threat to democracy. When Operation Metro Surge moved ...

Collaboration is appealing in concept but challenging in practice. While extensive resources—including ones from the Community Tool Box, The Intersector Project, and NewNetworkLeader.org—exist online ...

“We’re just trying to survive,” a social enterprise leader told us recently. “We’re doing things here and there with AI but haven’t made sense of it across the organization. I know we need to spend ...