Foundations
Who Holds the Keys?
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.
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?
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy’s Missing Trillions, Revisited
The Baby Boomers’ wealth transfer is one of the greatest opportunities in the history of philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, but there is still work to do to accelerate giving.
Economic Development
Closing the Rental Wealth Gap
For nearly a century, US policy prioritized homeownership to build middle-class wealth, leaving many renters behind and creating vast inequality. But innovative renter-wealth models are enabling renters to access the American dream.
Philanthropy & Funding
Faith-Aligned Finance Is the Original Trust Capital
Development finance sees faith-aligned capital as money to unlock. Its bigger value is the centuries-old architecture that lets money move at scale, endure over time, and arrive with trust built into its design.
Collaboration
Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene
Appalachia’s recovery from Hurricane Helene offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility.
Human Rights
Building a Culture of Accountability
Advancing racial equity within your organization requires making accountability a cultural norm.
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Technology
How AI Disclosures Disconnect
Seeing an AI disclosure on a social post leads users to disengage, because they feel the creator spent less effort on making it.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofit Mergers Need More Than Mission Alignment
What two mergers taught us about the necessary conditions and hard truths that come after "yes."
Leadership
If You Want to Teach Social Innovation, Teach Power
Lessons from Wesleyan on entrepreneurial education
Arts & Culture
The Six-Seat Revolution
A theater director transformed an abandoned newsstand into a radically new theatrical experience that is helping to revive the historic center of a Southern Italian town.
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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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
Scaling
Scale Right, Not Cheap and Easy
Social innovation means building a road to the future that doesn't yet exist, without lowering standards.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.