Dismissing Microfinance Won’t Help Solve Global Poverty
Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible financial services make a positive, lasting impact on people’s lives.
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To solve the nonprofit sector's donor retention crisis, we need to look past tactics and superficial reform: We need to transform philanthropy to make philanthropy truly transformative.
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AI companies are offering nonprofits free services and staff. Is the deal too good to be true?
Resourcing Appalachian Resilience After Helene
Appalachia's trust-based recovery from climate disaster offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility.
Scale Doesn’t Belong (Only) to Government
Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.
Designing Organizations for Neurodiversity
Research shows that neurodivergent employees display tendencies that can boost organizational performance—but too many organizations are not designed to incorporate their unique skill sets.
Philanthropy’s Missing Trillions, Revisited
The Baby Boomers' wealth transfer is one of the greatest opportunities in the history of the philanthropy and nonprofit sector. There is still work to do.
Faith-Aligned Finance Is the Original Trust Capital
Development finance sees faith-aligned capital as money to unlock. Its bigger value is the centuries-old architecture that lets money move at scale, endure over time, and arrive with trust built into its design.
How AI Disclosures Disconnect
Seeing an AI disclosure on a social post leads users to disengage, because they feel the creator spent less effort on making it.