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.
Government
Why Bureaucrats Defend Democracy
Civil servants are more likely to resist authoritarianism when they are supported by peers, ombuds offices, and professional associations.
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Coordinating Community Development
The Making Missing Markets initiative is marshaling funds and support groups to help towns across the United States.
Civic Engagement
To Save Democracy, Fund Organizing
Philanthropies concerned with toxic polarization and growing political extremism should invest in community organizing.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Ukraine’s Wartime Lifesavers
Ukrainian civil society is training both civilians and military on first aid and emergency medical response.
Technology
The Impossibility of Automating Economic Flourishing
In contrast to the worldview shaping the AI era, the true value of an innovative economy lies not just in outputs, but in the lived human experience of creating the new.
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Education
Building Schools Worth Defending
A response to nine essays on renewing the purpose of public education
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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.
Environment
The Just Transition That Isn’t
Green hydrogen partnerships in the Middle East and North Africa are sidelining the civil society organizations they claim to empower, repeating the sins of colonialism.
Environment
Concrete in Community
To decarbonize infrastructure, we need to look beyond technological fixes and learn to build coalitions.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy Is Too Small to Save the World
To meet the moment, we need to build the middle ground between philanthropy and commercial investing.
Leadership
CEO Activism and Authenticity
CEOs who take political stances command more credibility with the public when their companies embrace corporate social responsibility.
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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
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll