Leadership
Lessons for BIPOC Leaders
What looks like racial progress at many nonprofits can set up leaders of color to fail. Read one former executive director’s story and five lessons she learned.
Investments in digital innovation have the potential to greatly expand access to education, but success requires broad collaboration. Learn how the Digital School aims to reach Arabic-speaking students across the MENA region and beyond. Series: The Global Pursuit of Equity
What looks like racial progress at many nonprofits can set up leaders of color to fail. Read one former executive director’s story and five lessons she learned.
Despite evidence that unrestricted funding accelerates impact and shows lasting positive effects, many funders are hesitant to use the strategy in their giving. Why?
An excerpt from Tell Me My Story on mission-driven workplace cultures that help people heal, serve, and grow
Many in the philanthropic sector resist the idea of spending down or sunsetting. However, deliberately choosing to close an organization can actually help the organization to function better.
A charity and bank are teaming up to ease the rental process for low-income and homeless people in the United Kingdom.
The nonpartisan nonprofit coalition Rebuild Local News seeks to reverse the rapid decline of local journalism with public policy solutions.
An excerpt from Next Generation Evidence on building social impact through a broader and more inclusive definition of evidence
A new data-based initiative is helping businesses measure the racial equity of their workforce and take steps to improve it. Series: The Global Pursuit of Equity
Building a more equitable, effective, and efficient social sector will require understanding and addressing these risks.
Because equity is not the status quo, international development practitioners must adopt intentional best practices.
An excerpt from Innovation for the Masses on tech centers that are getting it right
Comprehensive reparations are fundamental to realizing our highest democratic ideals.
Thinking strategically about how nonprofits should respond to potentially polarizing world events.
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
Because trust-based philanthropy shouldn’t mean blind faith.
Like so many organizations, our environmental nonprofit was rocked by internal conflict. What happened and what did we learn?
Impact investors can support a more just economy by prioritizing alternative ownership enterprises that shift power away from shareholders to workers, the community, and the planet.
The pursuit of better outcomes for underserved communities, rather than the novelty of emerging technologies, should drive innovation in health care.