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Education
Education’s Social Contract in the Age of AI
Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.
Scaling
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
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Education
Education for Thriving Careers
What the research says about education, jobs, AI, and what students will need to succeed as future workers and citizens.
Civic Engagement
How We Achieve a Multiracial Democracy
America needs a new story—one that doesn’t shy away from its racial history—to guide us toward realizing a thriving multiracial democracy.
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Measurement & Evaluation
The Randomista Revolt
An excerpt from Beyond Belief on building the evidence revolution in Washington
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Advocacy
A Blueprint for Transformational Advocacy
An excerpt from Reclaiming Our Democracy on how grassroots advocates are made
Technology
Supercharging Network Intelligence
How network organizations can use AI to better understand and support their members in real time.
Health
The New Paradigm of Airborne Disease
The COVID-19 pandemic shattered established views of airborne disease. Although it represents a paradigm shift in public health, the field has yet to catch up.
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Renewing Public Education’s Purpose
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Stuart Foundation are pleased to co-sponsor this series of diverse essays on the purpose of public education. The authors write from different vantage points, but each takes seriously a core question: In a time of widespread change, what is public education for, and how can it evolve to meet its promise?
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofits Need Enterprise Capital to Succeed
Many nonprofits face a mismatch of their budget and their balance sheet. Funders can help build stronger financial foundations.
Philanthropy & Funding
Due Diligence as a Catalyst for Growth
Why philanthropy should think of due diligence not as a vetting exercise, but as an opportunity to build deeper partnerships that lead to more sustainable impact.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Four Principles of a Breathing Organization
From Model Ts to tea, organizations devoted to human flourishing need to build the human architecture for their people to breathe.
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Impact Investing
There Is No Such Thing as Impact Investing
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
Scaling
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How Will Your Nonprofit Survive?
In the face of current funding uncertainty, US nonprofits must innovate to sustain their missions.
Education
Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence
As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.
Economic Development
When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.