Education
A Targeted Approach to Workforce Readiness
Comprehensive reform of a single mandatory subject in Rwandan secondary schools is setting students up for real-world opportunities by aligning classroom learning with life after graduation.
Impact Investing
You Get What You Pay For: Impact Investing’s Measurement Problem
Despite widespread acceptance in impact investing of the need for reliable impact data, funding for producing it lags behind.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing Should Be Hard
In the face of immense social challenges, impact investing needs to be more than traditional investing with an impact report.
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Government
What It Means to Govern for All
The road to making legal equal protection real, proactive, and effective is long, but it begins with being clear about the destination. Follow the series.
Leadership
Leading Together for Systems Change
Social change requires a deep understanding of how people and systems interact, and of how to tap into the powerful effects of people leading together.
Technology
Reimagining Our High-Tech World
Digital technology must develop in service of society, not the other way around.
Advocacy
The Full Meaning of Solidarity
A conversation with authors Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor about how solidarity relates to identity and how leaders can build cohesion across differences.
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Leadership
Engage to Spark Collaboration
An excerpt from Making Work Matter on developing impactful leadership
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Realizing a Multiracial Democracy for All
Despite the revolutionary idea that all are created equal, the American promise of “We, the People” remains unfulfilled. This series, sponsored by PolicyLink, explores how each of us can carry forward the work of generations before us to realize a flourishing nation designed for all of its people.
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We Must Be Founders
To fulfill this nation’s promise as a multiracial democracy requires more than tinkering around the edges. Renewal requires bottom-up transformation.
Philanthropy & Funding
In Defense of Big Bets
The movement to mobilize big bets in philanthropy is growing. Let’s not dissuade potential donors by framing it as “a new way to fail.”
Collaboration
Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide
Every social system has its own unique and self-reinforcing characteristics, practices, and vocabularies. Learning to span these boundaries is a prerequisite for any significant change effort.
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Collaboration
Healing Systems
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
Philanthropy & Funding
In Numbers We Trust
Because trust-based philanthropy shouldn’t mean blind faith.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Learning From an Intergenerational Blowup Over Social Justice
Like so many organizations, our environmental nonprofit was rocked by internal conflict. What happened and what did we learn?
Health
Putting Equity First in Health Care Innovation
The pursuit of better outcomes for underserved communities, rather than the novelty of emerging technologies, should drive innovation in health care.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing Should Be Hard
Striving for value-adding impact means demanding additionality.