If we are to go beyond performative gestures, we need to first reckon with the true scale of what must be done.

The current federal data system that we've relied on for decades is collapsing. While alarming, we now have a rare ...

Ahead of COP31, the test for climate finance is no longer what gets announced; it is whether money reaches the systems that ...

Just over a year ago, 51 percent of Americans—a majority, albeit a slim one—were broadly receptive to data centers being built near them. Now, 75 percent of people say they would oppose a new data ...

Over the past few years, more and more funders with free-standing, endowed, or well-resourced private philanthropies have reached out to us asking us for help connecting them to potential co-funders.

As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience ...

Billions in donor-advised funds (DAFs) sit like honey crystallizing in forgotten jars—sweet but inert—while urgent social needs multiply beyond the glass. According to a recent report from the Donor ...

The humble foundation for scaling is often the unimpressive numbers that measure the beginnings of true normative change.

Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for ...

Collaborative giving has surged over the past 10 years. Indeed, nearly half of the 300-plus collaborative funds—entities that pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits—that ...

In Liverpool, an exhausted homeless shelter worker puts her head in her hands at the end of another long day. The system she works in is failing the people it is supposed to serve, and she feels ...