Understanding State Governance
An excerpt from Education, Equity, and the States explores how education reform requires government reform.
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MacArthur Foundation Program Leader Reflects on Lessons From 100&Change Grant Competition
A conversation with Cecilia Conrad, managing director at the MacArthur Foundation, who leads 100&Change.
To Spread Prosperity Further, Philanthropy Should Take Lessons From China
Philanthropic and social change organizations have much to learn from China's success with alleviating poverty through reforms targeting entrepreneurialism, governance, businesses, and women.
Women’s Groups and Funders Respond to Global Gag Rule
Four successful strategies to mitigate the effects of a restrictive funding policy that the Trump administration reinstated.
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Sesame Workshop, Winner of 100&Change Grant Competition, Discusses What’s Next
A conversation with MacArthur Foundation "big bet" winner Sesame Workshop.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.