Corporations have driven life-changing innovation and the greatest creation of wealth in history. Yet this wealth—and the power and influence it confers—has accrued almost entirely to a tiny fraction ...

Over the last decade, democracies around the world have seen the steady decay of civic trust, the rise of hyperpolarization, the growth of cooperation among authoritarian powers, and a host of ...

What happens when a nonprofit program or an entire organization needs to shut down? The communities being served, and often society as a whole, are the losers. What if it were possible to mitigate ...

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 1970, Songs of the Humpback Whale was released. The album was one of the first sound recordings of the humpback whales’ song and became an anthem for the environmental movement. It was credited ...

After her third child was born prematurely, Ruth, a 25-year-old Kenyan mother, didn’t know where to turn. “When the doctor approved that we could go home, I felt afraid since this birth was different ...

Capacity building has matured as a philanthropic practice. Its measurement has not. If funders believe support beyond the ...

In that sense, the vanishing developmental commons is a story about the environment and experiences we choose to lean into as ...

Rather than formulating a perfect vision and then trying to elicit compliance from others, effective reform leadership looks ...

To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.

Homeownership is considered the American dream, but for millions of people who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC), the reality of the US housing system is more of a nightmare. Built on ...