Impact Investing
Liquidity Is the Missing Elixir in Impact Investing
Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no prospect of exit.
Education
Changemaker U.
Patrick Awuah launched Ashesi University as an institution of higher learning thoroughly shaped by social innovation. Read a new case study on how the school became a shining example of “changemaker institutions.”
Nonprofits & NGOs
Compliance as Resistance
Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppress.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Major Giving Must Be Central
An excerpt from A Better Way to Fundraise on making major giving the operating system for fundraising
Global Editions
A Multiracial Democracy in the United States Requires Racial Repair
Comprehensive reparations are fundamental to realizing our highest democratic ideals.
Food
Food System Innovation in China
How can civil society put food system transformation on the agenda in developing countries that only recently eliminated or are still fighting widespread hunger?
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Education
Education’s Social Contract for the Age of AI
Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.
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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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Education for Thriving Careers
What the research says about education, jobs, AI, and what students will need to succeed as future workers and citizens.
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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?
Technology
Supercharging Network Intelligence
How network organizations can use AI to better understand and support their members in real time.
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.
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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.