This hidden curriculum exists because survival often depends on it. In my consulting work, supporting grantees as they navigate various donor systems, I have seen firsthand the emotional and ...

When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when ...

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 ...

When communities are praised for their resilience in times of crisis, we often hear stories about people showing up for one another, neighbors helping neighbors, and organizations stepping forward.

In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest ...

For the better part of the last decade, democracies around the world have been confronted by increased conservative populism, authoritarian impulses, and growing disillusionment with political ...

That sentiment, which became central to the second-wave-feminist discourse of the 1960s and ’70s, gave voice to the idea that personal experiences, particularly those of women, could no longer be ...

The idea that nonprofits should develop a theory of change has been widely embraced in recent years, and funders have helped drive the momentum. In fact, many funders now require that nonprofits ...

Over the past few decades, three major narrative movements have emerged to shape the housing debate: Housing for All, Housing Justice, and Housing Abundance. Each has distinct origins, strategies, and ...

“Systems change” has become a ubiquitous topic of interest for anyone serious about addressing our multiple social-environmental-economic-governance crises. Yet for all its ubiquity, the term tends to ...