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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Donor Retention Requires Transformation
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.
Our Vanishing Developmental Commons
What human capacities must remain stubbornly human, even in an age of intelligent machines?
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Reform as Process, Not Project
An excerpt from Reform as Process on reforming government bureaucracy
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Arriving at Collective Power
In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.
How to Build Digital Health Platforms in Emerging Markets
In developing economies, the digital health platforms that actually work are not imported. They are built from scratch by the communities they serve.
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.
AI Industry Philanthropy and the Future of Nonprofit Independence
AI companies are offering nonprofits free services and staff. Is the deal too good to be true?
Capacity Building Needs an Evidence Standard
Funders should measure capacity building by what changes, not just what grantees like.
Emergency Housing
Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of the homestay-platform company, is providing short-term homes to families in crisis, first responders, and medical patients worldwide.