Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no ...

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance ...

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

At the same time, giving is becoming increasingly concentrated among a smaller group of donors whose expectations are fundamentally different—more relational, more selective, and more oriented toward ...

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 ...

“Community” is so easy to say. The word itself connects us with each other. It describes an experience so common that we never really take time to explain it. It seems so simple, so natural, and so ...

As of 2023, nearly 20 million people are employed by the government at the state and local level. State and local government employees play a significant role in supporting and uplifting their local ...

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 ...

An excerpt from Beyond Belief on building the evidence revolution in Washington ...

In these new models, school becomes a place where learning feels alive because it is lived—and success is defined by how ...

More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cities in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) continue to grapple with economic stagnation, aging infrastructure, and environmental ...