Capital for Creativity

By Laura Callanan 5

Impact investors have ignored the arts and culture sector, at the expense of the communities they seek to help.

Pound Foolish

By Nancy E. Roman

Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.

Cash as Capital

By Chris Blattman, Michael Faye, Dean Karlan, Paul Niehaus & Chris Udry 3

To fulfill the promise of cash transfers, we need to double down on investment in research.

Fighting Sustainability Inertia

By Jenny Davis-Peccoud, Paul Stone & Clare Tovey

Keeping sustainability programs on track requires a new mind-set, executive leadership, and clear public commitments.

Against ‘Big Bets’

By Larry Kramer 4

Funders should be wary of the latest fad of making large grants for quick results and abandoning long-term commitments to the many organizations working on our most important problems.

In Defense of Pet Causes

By Ian David Moss 7

The effective altruism movement could be more effective if it encouraged adoption of its principles within causes and geographies, not just across them.

Marine Conservation 2.0

By Steve Rocliffe

Saving the oceans requires the buy-in of coastal communities directly affected by environmental protections.

Opening Prison Doors

By Dirk Van Velzen 1

We must create educational opportunities to reduce recidivism among prison inmates and empower them to lead successful lives post incarceration.

A Question of Outcomes

By Caroline Whistler & John Grossman 2

For more and more social change efforts, the key to success lies in clearly defining the desired results for beneficiaries.

Conflict Aid Goes “Lean”

By Whitney Shinkle 1

Iterative design methods are essential to development work—even (or especially) in regions marked by war and violence.