In September 2024, an article in The Economist posed a provocative question: Can evidence-based development programs, like those championed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, scale ...

In an era of shrinking global aid budgets and growing pressure to deliver lasting social impact, governments, funders, and NGOs face a common challenge: how to scale what works. Many leaders point to ...

Small-town clergy, metro clergy, bishops, and congregational leaders stood together because they had already practiced ...

How do we get people of all political identities to willingly support social progress without compromising anyone’s values? In September 2024, two months before the American public voted Republicans ...

In March 2025, US President Donald Trump penned a public letter to Michael Kratsios, his incoming director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlining a vision to “usher in ...

Since the dawn of the 21st century, we’ve faced an explosion of ideas and information like never before. Today’s world brings unprecedented levels of communication, leading to rising anxiety, ...

Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technology was already a growing part of the Ukrainian economy and was central to the government’s vision to reimagine the way citizens and businesses interact ...

“[Men] fear each other because they don’t know each other, and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are ...

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

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 ...

Complex challenges are often approached through siloed solutions—whether policy, markets, or social programs. But rarely are these attempts sufficient because the challenges we face are the result not ...

This hidden curriculum exists because survival often depends on it. In my consulting work, supporting grantees as they ...