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 ...
Many Americans struggle to have hope in these times of crisis. Since COVID-19’s onset six years ago, we’ve lived through mass death, economic whiplash, accelerating climate disasters, an attack on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
That is a core deficit. Students receiving an entrepreneurial education should be well versed in how power manifests, persists, who holds it, and how it evolves. They must be equally capable of ...
This distinction matters because the nonprofit sector tends to recognize only one type of merger: the last-minute rescue, the ...
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, ...
Drawing on more than a decade of our experience researching sustainable and circular business model innovation and more than 200 interviews with managers of corporations leading on sustainability, we ...
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 ...
Although it is possible for impact investors to achieve social impact along with market rate returns, it's not easy to do and doesn't happen nearly as often as many boosters would have you believe.
The Baby Boomers' wealth transfer is one of the greatest opportunities in the history of the philanthropy and nonprofit sector. There is still work to do.