Education
Shifting Philanthropic Power
Last spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic magnified the United States’ racial and class inequities, Teach for America endeavored to put philanthropic power in younger, more racially diverse hands.
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Civic Engagement
Four Ways to Age-Integrate National Service
National service programs can bring together older and younger people to serve side by side, producing a windfall of human and social capital, plus much-needed generational and cultural understanding.
Social Services
Empathy Through Service
Programs like Teach for America can help participants take on the perspectives of those they seek to help.
Foundations
Foundations as Interest Groups
While old foundations typically support traditional public-school institutions, new foundations are seeking to reshape or bypass them.
Education
Philanthropy and the Growth of Charter Schools
What is the right role for private funders in the US education system?
Social Entrepreneurship
Intrapreneurship for Higher Education Reform
Three lessons for intrapreneurship’s emerging community of practice.
Education
Mentor for America
Thanks to the New Teacher Center, beginning educators gain support that will help them thrive in a challenging profession.
Nonprofit Management
Empowering Movements for Global Education Reform
Our experience challenges notions that quality scaling requires top-down, centralized approaches.
Nonprofits
Transformative Scale: The Future of Growing What Works
Nine strategies to deliver impact at a scale that truly meets needs.
Nonprofit Management
Emerging Pathways to Transformative Scale
The cofounder of and a consultant at The Bridgespan Group elaborate on important strategies for scaling up social impact.