Philanthropy & Funding
Funding the Invisible
How nonprofits in countries with conflict and closing civil spaces are doubly penalized in the funding world, and 10 ways funders can better serve them.
Education
Fighting Misinformation Works
Children can be taught to identify false health claims online, and the benefits can spread to their parents.
Education
Build the Market First, Then Fund Innovation
Scaling proven solutions to the early childhood skills gap requires building a market for parenting interventions.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Pay-It-Forward Threshold
What does it take for a nonprofit to grow without external support?
Civic Engagement
Want to Support a Healthy Democracy? Start Here.
After a decade of transforming public spaces, we are building trust and connection between Americans.
Environment
Returning Yulića: Lessons From Land Rematriation
How funders, sellers, and intermediaries can better support Indigenous “land back” initiatives.
Global Editions
Revitalizing Korea’s Small Cities
How the urban revitalization project Localize Gunsan breathed new life into a declining area by applying a pacer model that supports young entrepreneurs.
Philanthropy & Funding
Does Everything Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Making Compliance Work for Philanthropy
Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than impedes, philanthropy’s essential purpose.
IN-DEPTH SERIES
Navigating Philanthropic Compliance in an Era of Heightened Regulation
This article series, presented in partnership with Latitude Global, explores how compliance shapes philanthropic efficacy and how the sector might do better, particularly in contexts where political decisions or constraints make civil society difficult to support.
Philanthropy & Funding
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
Leadership
Teaching Disagreement Is Leadership Work
Why learning how to disagree well is important to professional development, and four areas where organizational leaders and staff can start.
Advocacy
Beyond Direct Provision
To create systemic change in health care for children, advocacy groups need to look to government.
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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.
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.
Collaboration
The Impact Collaborative
A new nonprofit alliance model shows how previously siloed organizations can collaborate to scale services while retaining autonomy.