As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

In 2019, Genevieve (co-author of this article) and her husband applied for the same credit card. Despite having a slightly better credit score and the same income, expenses, and debt as her husband, ...

Today the design of things that involve human interaction, such as programs, product delivery, and services, is more art than science. Here is how it typically works: We use our creativity to ...

In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest ...

Many organizations claim to value people who “think differently.” Innovation, independent thinking, and challenging assumptions are celebrated in mission statements and leadership rhetoric. Yet the ...

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 ...

This distinction matters because the nonprofit sector tends to recognize only one type of merger: the last-minute rescue, the ...

“Wealth defense” refers to the structures and strategies that support the accumulation of wealth and the prevention of its democratic redistribution. It is now a multibillion-dollar industry. Like ...

On July 1, 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) effectively ceased operations. With it went 83 percent of US assistance programs—over 5,300 projects. A study in The ...

Public schools need to change. Such a statement is common to pieces written about American education and is usually followed by an author’s preferred remedies—such as strengthening standards, ...

Time 10 - 11:30 a.m. PT / 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET Jeff Leitner is an architect of norm design, the practice of finding the unwritten rules that hold stubborn problems in place and designing change that works ...

Many Americans struggle to have hope in these times of crisis. Since COVID-19’s onset six years ago, we’ve lived through mass death, economic whiplash, accelerating climate disasters, an attack on the ...