Paying for Public Failure Isn’t Always Charity
A response to Kevin Starr on the "philanthropy" of impact investing
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Building Organizational Capacity for Constructive Conflict
Why compliance systems fall short, and how organizations can develop the skills and systems they need to effectively navigate and ultimately benefit from conflict.
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Work Smarter with AI: Balancing Automation, Augmentation, and Critical Thinking for Nonprofits
Research shows that over-reliance on AI weakens our cognitive abilities, yet resource-strapped nonprofits can't afford to ignore its potential. In this 90-minute webinar, Beth Kanter will guide you through the science of healthy versus unhealthy AI use, offering practical prompting techniques and frameworks. Walk away knowing exactly when to automate, when to augment, and when to use your own critical thinking skills.
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.
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Grief Is a Gift
An excerpt from Tom Chi’s Climate Capital on building forward for the future we need.
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.