Amid much discussion about the future of philanthropy, one mystery deserves more attention: Why does the giving of so many ...

Many modern philanthropists are building impact that lasts, though it may not look like the brick-and-mortar projects of ...

Lessons from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis on defending our neighbors and democracy ...

But trying to find a more graceful way to say it led me to the heart of what I believe: Giving can be simple. Giving is human ...

The totality of these interconnected factors is what we call freedom of choice. An analysis of more than 600 cases of ...

For every 100 people contacted, 58 individuals never became active participants. This analysis made the conversion bottleneck ...

Building power in communities now will protect them from the next threat to democracy. When Operation Metro Surge moved ...

You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first time—whether it’s a worker cooperative in North Carolina, a community garden, a labor-housing cooperative, a cohousing group in New ...

I was interested to read “Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore” in the Summer 2026 issue of Stanford Social Innovation ...

Julius Rosenwald is one of our philanthropic heroes. In the early 1910s, having already made business history by transforming Sears, Roebuck & Co. into the Amazon of its day, he set out on an even ...

As of 2023, nearly 20 million people are employed by the government at the state and local level. State and local government employees play a significant role in supporting and uplifting their local ...