It requires renegotiating the social contract that underlies education—who holds power, who earns trust, who gets to make ...

What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we expected to see a wave of nonprofit mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Like many others, we thought that the pandemic’s challenges would likely combine with ...

Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no ...

One glimpse at the August 2024 wildfire incident map of Western North America and one might have thought half the continent was on fire. Oregon had declared a statewide wildfire state of emergency ...

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance ...

Roughly a decade ago, a coalition of industry leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations in an American city tried to pass a ballot measure for a tax increase. The tax aimed to raise ...

The concept of “strategic philanthropy” has been around for a while. While there is some variation in how it is defined, key elements were laid out nearly a decade ago: “outcome-oriented, ...

Investors have a lot on their plates: inspecting quarterly reports, following market trends, meeting with management teams, sourcing deals, courting potential co-investors, and much more. It stands to ...

An excerpt from Beyond Belief on building the evidence revolution in Washington ...

The size of the worldwide impact investing market has now crossed the trillion-dollar mark, according to the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). However, together with that impressive scale it is ...

At the same time, giving is becoming increasingly concentrated among a smaller group of donors whose expectations are fundamentally different—more relational, more selective, and more oriented toward ...