What human capacities must remain stubbornly human, even in an age of intelligent machines?
In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
An excerpt from Reform as Process on reforming government bureaucracy
Research shows that neurodivergent employees display tendencies that can boost organizational performance—but too many organizations are not designed to incorporate their unique skill sets.
AI companies are offering nonprofits free services and staff. Is the deal too good to be true?
Funders should measure capacity building by what changes, not just what grantees like.
Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of the homestay-platform company, is providing short-term homes to families in crisis, first responders, and medical patients worldwide.
I had a mandate to create an investment portfolio wholly devoted to impact that would not sacrifice returns. After a decade, it outperformed its benchmarks of traditional market indexes and demonstrated that socially positive investments are long-term value investments.
Nonprofits balancing automation with empathy should focus on supporting team members providing care so they can be more present with people seeking help.
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump administration but argues that entrenched political failures are what makes them possible and what must be addressed.
How well-targeted investments can help unlock the full potential of Black higher education.
Good missions don’t automatically become good results. Seven self-imposed burdens most often separate the two, and senior leaders can dismantle them.
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
