To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.
Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible financial services make a positive, lasting impact on people’s lives.
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.
What human capacities must remain stubbornly human, even in an age of intelligent machines?
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?
How well-targeted investments can help unlock the full potential of Black higher education.
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.
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
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.
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.
