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

The research is clear: Diverse teams get better results. From 2019 to 2021 corporate boards increased their diversity by 50 percent, just as many social sector boards have responded to societal wakeup ...

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

There are two big things to notice here. The first is that while most potential donors don’t think there’s that much difference in effectiveness between charities, the experts polled think there’s a ...

The nonprofit sector is deeply in debt to individuals who identify a needs gap in their communities and are propelled to launch a formal effort to address that need by founding a 501(c)(3). It takes ...

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 ...

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

Two decades ago, I joined a group of Malians and Americans partnering with communities on the edge of Mali’s capital city. We aimed to bring care quickly to patients’ doorsteps, with no out-of-pocket ...

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 ...

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

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 ...