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 presses with urgency. Too often, the answers on offer are narrowly ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nonprofit leaders often grapple with the question of how big their organization will need to get to have the impact they aspire to. Inevitably, that question is coupled with the question of where the ...

In NBC’s The Good Place, the entire system of the afterlife is thrown into chaos because of one central flaw: The way data about people’s lives is collected and used is completely opaque. Characters ...

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

Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the ...

Business as usual is failing the planet and all of us. Our economy is not creating a livable society for most people. It is fueling climate change, worsening wealth inequality, seeding the conditions ...

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 ...