Organizations that put authentic community governance at the heart of their work are using civic data to drive better ...

As concerns mount about social and environmental sustainability, an unlikely planetary hero has emerged: the accountant. A growing collection of investors, academics, and business leaders have ...

In Liverpool, an exhausted homeless shelter worker puts her head in her hands at the end of another long day. The system she works in is failing the people it is supposed to serve, and she feels ...

Since January, I’ve been traveling around the United States talking to audiences about my new book, The Almanac of American Philanthropy, and how private giving affects our nation. During these ...

A few weeks ago, the board chair of a great social enterprise called me in distress. A collaboration he had nurtured was in disarray. He’d gotten ahold of an email that called the executive director ...

Management education, particularly MBA education, is facing an existential crisis. Despite rapid growth in program offerings over the past two decades, threats loom. Many leading institutions in the ...

In recent years, systems thinking—a discipline that helps us understand interdependent structures of dynamic systems—has emerged as a powerful force for change in the philanthropic world. Borne out of ...

Humanity is beginning to come to terms with the fact that the era in which we live is characterized by the exponential. The increasing pace of technological development, climate change, and ...

This special supplement looks closely at the lessons the Orfalea Fund has learned about how to create effective partnerships with nonprofits, government agencies, and other philanthropies.

Innovation labs, with their aspirations to foster systemic change, have become a mainstay of the social innovation scene. Used by city administrations, NGOs, think tanks, and multinational ...

Yascha Mounk, a Harvard University lecturer and expert on crises of liberal democracy, recently issued a dire warning. “If current trends continue for another 20 or 30 years,” he said, “democracy will ...

It’s easy to forget that a lot of policy decisions aren’t made by the politicians we see in the press every day. Often the real power to implement new ideas lies below the radar—with purpose-driven, ...