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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.

Over the last decade, democracies around the world have seen the steady decay of civic trust, the rise of hyperpolarization, the growth of cooperation among authoritarian powers, and a host of ...

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 ...

Those of us in the social sector are painfully aware that toxic individuals and cultures are not just a function of the private sector—unfortunately, our sector has had its own share of recent ...

For the better part of the last decade, democracies around the world have been confronted by increased conservative populism, authoritarian impulses, and growing disillusionment with political ...