When 10 social change leaders gather in a room to discuss big bet giving, you might hear 15 different opinions. One fact, ...

In 19th century America, every major aspect of daily life was age integrated. Older and younger people worked side by side in the fields of an agrarian economy. Multigenerational households were the ...

How nonprofits in countries with conflict and closing civil spaces are doubly penalized in the funding world, and 10 ways ...

Everyone is talking about systems. Or at least, that's how it seems in my wonkish corner of the philanthropic world. You can't attend a conference or even have a meeting without hearing about systems, ...

We live in an interesting time. A movement against facing the truth of US history and acknowledging the existence of systemic racism is sweeping through many parts of our country. Colonization is ...

For at least two decades, one question has structured much of how philanthropy and the social innovation ecosystem think about change: Can it scale? The question appears in grant applications, ...

This article proposes a simple way to think about that question for nonprofits: the Pay-It-Forward Threshold. Two-thirds of ...

What distinguishes families that build strong skills is not money. The Baby’s First Years experiment gave low-income mothers $333 per month and found no effect on children’s cognitive outcomes after ...

Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than ...

I became a nonprofit executive director at 29 years old. As the child of immigrants, I was aware of social and political inequities at an early age, which eventually led me to a career in ...

Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship (SEE)—a business-inspired approach to solving social problems—has exploded across the United States and the world in the last decade. It has entrenched ...