The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement
How organizations handle disagreement shapes not only their internal health, but also the civic capacities society depends on.
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Holding the Tension
From workplaces to civic institutions, disagreement is both a risk and a resource. This series, presented in partnership with Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, explores how organizations and leaders can treat it not as a liability, but as a source of learning, legitimacy, and cohesion.
What Else Can We Do? The Thirteen Intentions of Philanthropy
A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, effectiveness, and scale. Embracing the varied intentions that motivate people to give offers a more resilient, pluralistic path forward.
Measuring More and Learning Less
How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.
Meeting the Moments After This One
Philanthropy's role in Minneapolis must be to build for after the current crisis passes.
Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI
How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems.
Keeping Score on Sustainable Grantmaking
How we developed a new benchmark to shift philanthropic norms
Scale That Lasts
A framework for moving from government partnership to country ownership
The Low-Cost AI Illusion
What the next economic phase of artificial intelligence means for public interest work and how organizations can protect equity, access, and themselves.
Making the Case for Equitable Housing
Abundance and justice aren't mutually exclusive. Narrative lessons from three major advocacy movements of recent years.