As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

What is not working about the US response to homelessness? Every year, cities spend more on services, but homelessness is on the rise and public frustration with the status quo is growing. Providers ...

For people who move money in the name of impact, the shutdown of USAID landed like a star collapsing into itself. The United States government’s flagship development agency—once the world’s biggest ...

Caregiving is a fundamental aspect of being a human; “a species condition.” Providing care is foundational to meeting a broad swath of globally agreed development goals, including United Nations SDG 3 ...

In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest ...

Many organizations claim to value people who “think differently.” Innovation, independent thinking, and challenging assumptions are celebrated in mission statements and leadership rhetoric. Yet the ...

This distinction matters because the nonprofit sector tends to recognize only one type of merger: the last-minute rescue, the ...

French profit-sharing rules improve the pay of lower-skilled workers without affecting the growth or productivity of firms.

Public schools need to change. Such a statement is common to pieces written about American education and is usually followed by an author’s preferred remedies—such as strengthening standards, ...

As leaders across the social sector adopt the collective impact approach to problem solving, an important question looms in many people’s minds: Given how complex and unpredictable the work is, what ...

Time 10 - 11:30 a.m. PT / 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET Jeff Leitner is an architect of norm design, the practice of finding the unwritten rules that hold stubborn problems in place and designing change that works ...

On July 1, 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) effectively ceased operations. With it went 83 percent of US assistance programs—over 5,300 projects. A study in The ...