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 ...

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

What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question presses with urgency. Too often, the answers on offer are narrowly ...

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 ...

An Indian state's initiative to establish women-run community libraries is giving rural students—especially girls—a safe space to study and access career guidance.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we expected to see a wave of nonprofit mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Like many others, we thought that the pandemic’s challenges would likely combine with ...

Nonprofit leaders often grapple with the question of how big their organization will need to get to have the impact they aspire to. Inevitably, that question is coupled with the question of where the ...

In 2011, the original Stanford Social Innovation Review article, “Collective Impact,” found fertile ground in Australia, describing and validating an approach pioneered by a small number of Australian ...

Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the ...

Throughout this article series, it has been fascinating and encouraging to read the authors’ reflections on the importance of putting racial equity at the center of the impact investing movement—and ...

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 ...