If we are to go beyond performative gestures, we need to first reckon with the true scale of what must be done.

The current federal data system that we've relied on for decades is collapsing. While alarming, we now have a rare ...

Just over a year ago, 51 percent of Americans—a majority, albeit a slim one—were broadly receptive to data centers being built near them. Now, 75 percent of people say they would oppose a new data ...

Ahead of COP31, the test for climate finance is no longer what gets announced; it is whether money reaches the systems that ...

As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience ...

Over the past few years, more and more funders with free-standing, endowed, or well-resourced private philanthropies have reached out to us asking us for help connecting them to potential co-funders.

Billions in donor-advised funds (DAFs) sit like honey crystallizing in forgotten jars—sweet but inert—while urgent social needs multiply beyond the glass. According to a recent report from the Donor ...

The humble foundation for scaling is often the unimpressive numbers that measure the beginnings of true normative change.

Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for ...

How one urban Indigenous organization is working to transform data governance using a model that’s founded on Indigenous values ...

Collaborative giving has surged over the past 10 years. Indeed, nearly half of the 300-plus collaborative funds—entities that pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits—that ...