That is a core deficit. Students receiving an entrepreneurial education should be well versed in how power manifests, persists, who holds it, and how it evolves. They must be equally capable of ...

As the industry and its financial model become increasingly precarious, a reimagining of how performing arts organizations ...

The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the Navajo Times saying “feminism is against our culture,” and when I do workshops on the topic, ...

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

Consider what the unicorn metric renders invisible. Acumen’s portfolio has reached nearly 800 million low-income people, ...

In previous essays, we’ve discussed how powerful stories can motivate people of different backgrounds to care about and engage with large and complex challenges like reversing climate change or social ...

More and more people in the social sector seem to believe that the government is the best or even only way to scale. In arguing that “Scale Really Matters,” for instance, Kevin Starr recently argued ...

Each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, leaders of color working in philanthropy across the United States gather to strategize, to vision, and to be in community with one another on an island where Black ...

At Open Philanthropy, a funder and advisor seeking to do as much good as possible with our giving, we are investing in safely reducing incarceration in the United States. Incarceration is a large ...

If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 55 minutes defining the question and 5 minutes resolving it.—Albert Einstein Recent years have witnessed an undeniable and dispiriting trend ...

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction ...