And yet, even before, the traditional model was never adequate to the challenge. Overseas development aid (ODA) and ...

Lessons from Brazil on how science philanthropy can and should act in the face of political hostility. The United States is ...

The next era of public education will be judged less by the elegance of its ideas than by whether it responds, with humility and pragmatism, to the people it exists to serve.

Both funders and nonprofits have long seen due diligence as a vetting exercise that primarily supports decisions to fund organizations or not. Yet when funders set about due diligence in the ...

Of all the issues currently facing the American nonprofit community, few seem to evoke the emotional response engendered by any potential effort to alter or repeal the famous Johnson Amendment, ...

The research is clear: Diverse teams get better results. From 2019 to 2021 corporate boards increased their diversity by 50 percent, just as many social sector boards have responded to societal wakeup ...

For most of the past three decades, we have gotten education wrong for students. I say that as a former teacher, district leader, and voice for education reform. Even as a few data points, like ...

We must love each other and support each other. Over the past decade, the words of Black Liberation activist Assata Shakur have echoed across California, as a chant by many grassroots youth organizing ...

One common image that often represents social innovation is a light bulb. It symbolizes a good idea, but light also guides us through dark times. It’s a bright spot in the midst of bleak circumstances ...

Civil servants are more likely to resist authoritarianism when they are supported by peers, ombuds offices, and professional ...

The Making Missing Markets initiative is marshaling funds and support groups to help towns across the United States.

In the early 1990s, I was working in China opening a heart-surgery unit. We had four patients arrive in our 12-bed unit in the same week after being diagnosed elsewhere with “chronic flu.” When we ...