An Indian state's initiative to establish women-run community libraries is giving rural students—especially girls—a safe space to study and access career guidance.

It requires renegotiating the social contract that underlies education—who holds power, who earns trust, who gets to make ...

What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question presses with urgency. Too often, the answers on offer are narrowly ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we expected to see a wave of nonprofit mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Like many others, we thought that the pandemic’s challenges would likely combine with ...

Nonprofit leaders often grapple with the question of how big their organization will need to get to have the impact they aspire to. Inevitably, that question is coupled with the question of where the ...

Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no ...

Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the ...

Roughly a decade ago, a coalition of industry leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations in an American city tried to pass a ballot measure for a tax increase. The tax aimed to raise ...

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance ...

Investors have a lot on their plates: inspecting quarterly reports, following market trends, meeting with management teams, sourcing deals, courting potential co-investors, and much more. It stands to ...

In 2011, the original Stanford Social Innovation Review article, “Collective Impact,” found fertile ground in Australia, describing and validating an approach pioneered by a small number of Australian ...