What happens when a nonprofit program or an entire organization needs to shut down? The communities being served, and often society as a whole, are the losers. What if it were possible to mitigate ...

After more than a year of all-absorbing politics, it feels like half of America is exhausted—and the other half exhilarated. Everyone, not to mention those who try to keep our politics both peaceful ...

It is often said that anything you can say about India, the opposite is equally valid. In recent years, data-driven decision-making has become a buzzword in policymaking circles across sectors in the ...

Have you ever heard of Kalamang? If not, you’re not alone. It’s an endangered language spoken by only 130 people and it has virtually no online presence. That’s one reason why, in 2023, it became the ...

In 1970, Songs of the Humpback Whale was released. The album was one of the first sound recordings of the humpback whales’ song and became an anthem for the environmental movement. It was credited ...

After her third child was born prematurely, Ruth, a 25-year-old Kenyan mother, didn’t know where to turn. “When the doctor approved that we could go home, I felt afraid since this birth was different ...

Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible ...

In that sense, the vanishing developmental commons is a story about the environment and experiences we choose to lean into as ...

Capacity building has matured as a philanthropic practice. Its measurement has not. If funders believe support beyond the ...

Rather than formulating a perfect vision and then trying to elicit compliance from others, effective reform leadership looks ...

To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.

In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.