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The Returns to a Good Education
If children worldwide are to receive the education they deserve, debate needs to move beyond public versus private, profit versus nonprofit.
When Will Design Get Serious About Impact?
To achieve sustained impact, designers should strive to shift the fundamental dynamics of development.
A Strategy for Alleviating Poverty
Why there is a renewed sense of urgency and optimism about place-based initiatives.
Signaling and Confirming
A new framework can help nonprofits and other social sector organizations measure the participation of their supporters.
Fostering the Creative Economy
The creative industries—those at the crossroads of arts, culture, business, and technology—can offer an economic jump-start for recovering economies.
Migrants at the Border and Philanthropy at Home
What the US government and funders are doing about unaccompanied child migration, and where we need to look next.
Fearless Leadership in a Social World
Most leaders of traditional organizations are missing enormous opportunities to tap into the social networks, ingenuity, and good will of their own constituents.