The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment
Prioritization tools are needed to address systemic bias in financial assistance programs.
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Building an Equitable Future by Centering Young Voices
Young people, especially ones from LGBTQ+ communities, are essential to achieving social change. Examples from Colombia show how to include them in decision-making.
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How Gig Work Exploits Instead of Empowers Women in the Global South
In many developing countries, the informal economy is the real economy. What, then, does it mean when digital labor platforms come to those countries?
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Thinking About Punishment
An excerpt from How Trust Works on the psychology of criminal justice reform
Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
Healing-Centered Funding for Systems Change
Knowledge of trauma and healing gives funders a way to expand their perspectives, do less harm, and be more effective at systems change.
Inside Oklahoma’s Innovation Rush
What two regions have learned about implementing an historic federal grant.
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Turk Wars: How AI Threatens the Workers Who Fuel It
The much-hyped AI tools of the future are being built by a globally dispersed army of data workers.
When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption
Development philanthropists should focus on building the productive capacity of entire countries to achieve large-scale economic transformation, rather than enabling a few individuals to increase their consumption.
A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good
What’s the best way for small individual investors to generate returns and deliver impact? (Spoiler: It’s probably not an ESG fund.)