Capacity building has matured as a philanthropic practice. Its measurement has not. If funders believe support beyond the ...

Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of the homestay-platform company, is providing short-term homes to families in crisis, first ...

When a nonprofit I founded in 1990 saw success in Boston, we were able to grow that nonprofit to two additional cities, Philadelphia and Hartford. In doing so, we encountered a host of ...

I had a mandate to create an investment portfolio wholly devoted to impact that would not sacrifice returns. After a decade, it outperformed its benchmarks of traditional market indexes and ...

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, ...

One of the most fundamental distinctions we tend to make in US philanthropy is between individual and institutional donors. Individual donors include both wealthy philanthropists and millions of ...

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump ...

Do and fund work that raises the bar, solves the problem, and pursues equity. As Kevin Starr has put it, if the solution is not good enough, it should not scale. Create solutions with the public ...

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

There is a quiet crisis unfolding inside the development offices of nonprofits across this country. It doesn’t make the front page and won’t generate the kind of urgency that a budget shortfall or a ...

Many organizations endeavored to institute structural changes to racial equity efforts following the morbid booster shot effect of George Floyd’s murder on stagnant national conversations about race.