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

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

CEOs who take political stances command more credibility with the public when their companies embrace corporate social ...

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.

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...

In the early ’90s I worked on corporate sustainability with a group of young, smart, optimistic colleagues, paid virtually nothing, working out of an office closet next to the bathroom at Rocky ...

Worldwide, two million children die each year from acute malnutrition, which equates to one death every 15 seconds. To fight this, global aid workers deploy a fortified peanut paste known as ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

According to the United States Mission to the African Union, the US alone has invested more than $100 billion in African health over the last 20 years. Despite the billions that international donors ...

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 ...