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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As of 2023, nearly 20 million people are employed by the government at the state and local level. State and local government employees play a significant role in supporting and uplifting their local ...