For much of their history, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been profoundly underfunded. Charged with educating generations of Black leaders while navigating segregation, ...

Good missions don’t automatically become good results. Seven self-imposed burdens most often separate the two, and senior leaders can dismantle them.

When organizations treat their fundraisers as quota machines rather than relationship architects, they tell the fundraiser ...

After all, something must be better than nothing? However, misguided or ill-conceived innovation aimed at helping those in ...

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 ...

In 2023, Resolution Project and Enactus began exploring the prospect of merging our organizations. The goal was to scale our impact without rebuilding existing infrastructure: Resolution Project had ...

This article is adapted from the full-length essay “Slow Philanthropy: Why giving by the ultra-wealthy often lags behind their ambitions—and what could help move money faste r,” published at ...

Shifting impact investment toward market creation means doing a lot more than changing how we talk about what we do.

You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first time—whether it’s a worker cooperative in North Carolina, a community garden, a labor-housing cooperative, a cohousing group in New ...

Collaboration is appealing in concept but challenging in practice. While extensive resources—including ones from the Community Tool Box, The Intersector Project, and NewNetworkLeader.org—exist online ...

Nonprofit governance is tough and getting tougher. As a result, nonprofit boards are increasingly challenged to consistently deliver high-quality governance. Well-intentioned efforts to improve ...

When Rina arrives at the Amazon warehouse, she swipes an employee ID. The sensors inside allow her past the door and then track her location as she moves through the giant facility each day. She ...