Progress in dealing with the problem of climate change will require that the institutions of government, business, and community work not in isolation from each other, let alone at cross-purposes, but by reinforcing each other’s efforts through consolidation.
Most global development programs still segment people by demographics when trying to change their behavior. We must learn from the private sector and segment people based on the reasons behind their actions. Open access to this article is made possible by The Surgo Foundation.
Humanitarian nonprofits unconsciously reinforce the very conditions of women’s oppression they seek to eradicate in their programming.
The social sector has a lot to learn from the innovation network that has emerged from the post-Thanksgiving global giving movement.
Proponents of charter school expansion in Massachusetts thought that a ballot initiative was the obvious bet. They were wrong.
While old foundations typically support traditional public-school institutions, new foundations are seeking to reshape or bypass them.
An educational collaboration between a literacy program for public schools and the government of Punjab, India, struggles with accountability and political support.
Research shows that foundations are motivated by impact in their grantmaking.
Foundations are shifting their higher-education funding to outside organizations that promote initiatives they favor.
In Winners Take All, writer Anand Giridharadas calls out the hypocrisies of philanthropists.
