Education
Education Needs Impact Engineering
The many discoveries from education research aren't making it to the classroom. It should follow the medical model of building infrastructure to translate research into impact.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Unfinished Work of Choosing Well
For all the benefits of philanthropy's turn toward learning, the field still needs a stronger focus on how to make judgments.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Building a Culture of Conflict Resiliency
Conflict is inevitable in any organization. The question for the nonprofit sector and its supporters is how to structure it in ways that strengthen communities.
Health
The Gift of the Body
Singapore has more legally permissive rules than Taiwan on organ donation consent, but Taiwan has greater donation rates because of the infrastructure of consent its medical system has built.
Advocacy
Why Charlie Kirk Didn’t Build a ‘MoveOn of the Right’
The Turning Point USA founder's obituaries invoked his desire to build a conservative MoveOn. What he built instead is revealing about the structure, strategies, and outcomes of political advocacy organizations.
Environment
Returning Yulića: Lessons From Land Rematriation
How funders, sellers, and intermediaries can better support Indigenous “land back” initiatives.
Leadership
Indigenous Feminism Is Our Culture
A call to bring back matriarchy in Indigenous communities to rebuild and decolonize the foundation of Native community life.
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Health
Walking Through Truth
Despite adversities, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas continue to thrive and develop solutions to social problems that help their communities—and the wider world.
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Philanthropy & Funding
What Makes a Good Impact Investment?
Impact investing has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. How is the field evolving? What are the new approaches and strategies that are making impact investing more accessible and appealing to funders of all sizes? How can the curious get started? Megan Kashner from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management joins the show to address critiques levied at the field and how to tell if an investment is having an impact. Giving With Impact is developed with the support of DAFgiving360®
Foundations
Who Holds the Keys? Unlocking Foundation Board Support for a Sector in Crisis
As federal funding disappears and community organizations close, much of the power to respond sits with foundation boards—and the moment to use it is now.
Technology
Intentional Design in AI Adoption, Not Just Speed
Going from hamster wheel to flywheel to supercharge AI adoption in workforce training
Business
How Profit Sharing Redistributes Wealth
French profit-sharing rules improve the pay of lower-skilled workers without affecting the growth or productivity of firms.
Economic Development
A Model for Restoring the Rust Belt
Deindustrialization hit Chicago's south suburbs hard. Can the Southland Development Authority breathe new life into the area and promote a template for reviving regions?
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Scaling
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
Philanthropy & Funding
Why Don’t Philanthropists Build Anymore?
The United States is living through a second Gilded Age. But unlike yesterday's magnates, today's billionaires prefer to write checks to existing organizations. They should instead build institutions that last.
Scaling
Scale Right, Not Cheap and Easy
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Who Will Raise the Money When the Money Raisers Are Gone?
To solve the talent crisis, we must move from transactionalism to transformation.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.