Food
Climate Help From Overseas
The agricultural city of Fundão, Portugal, is integrating foreign migrants to help with fire mitigation, climate resiliency, and rural revitalization.
Civic Engagement
Are You Building Something?
An interview with Marshall Ganz on what the social sector gets wrong about power and structural change
Global Editions
Catalyzing Climate Action Through Universities
Ruta Azul, the sustainability and climate action plan of the Mexican university Tecnológico de Monterrey, has integrated sustainability into the school’s culture and educational model to build a community capable of addressing the climate crisis through coordinated action.
Collaboration
When the Safety Net Fails
How an innovative public-private partnership responded rapidly to keep 82,000 families fed during a government shutdown.
Impact Investing
A Case Against Impact Investing
There is philanthropic investing, and there is commercial investing, and there is nothing in between.
Health
The Costs of Misdiagnosis
Quality, not access, will define the future of global health. We've developed a platform to improve health-care quality worldwide.
Philanthropy & Funding
Coordinating Community Development
The Making Missing Markets initiative is marshaling funds and support groups to help towns across the United States.
Global Editions
Science Philanthropy in a Democracy Under Pressure
Lessons from Brazil on how science philanthropy can and should act in the face of political hostility.
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When Minnesota’s Civic Gyms Stayed Open
This article series, produced in partnership with and sponsored by the McKnight Foundation, brings together foundation leaders, community partners, and a mutual aid organizer to reflect on what happened during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
Technology
When Landlords Make Exceptions
Even when landlords use algorithms for tenant screenings, exceptions to the rules are part of the process.
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Building Schools Worth Defending
A response to nine essays on renewing the purpose of public education
Government
Why Bureaucrats Defend Democracy
Civil servants are more likely to resist authoritarianism when they are supported by peers, ombuds offices, and professional associations.
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Earning Back the Trust: A Pluralistic Path Forward for Public Education
The next era of public education will be judged less by the elegance of its ideas than by whether it responds, with humility and pragmatism, to the people it exists to serve.
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Scaling
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
Philanthropy & Funding
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
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.