Education
Civics for the Internet Age
A new, bipartisan curriculum aims to help US students make sense of a highly polarized country.
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Economic Development
Disrupting the Disruptors: Collaborating to Advance Financial Health Through Technology
Four lessons for innovators, funders, and policymakers working to promote financial health in the United States.
Impact Investing
Market Making for Mission
Foundations have an important role to play in impact investing—in building platforms and products that efficiently mobilize capital, mitigate risk, and improve liquidity.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Pink Hats Were Awesome. Now Let’s Deliver.
We need to double down on the gritty business of impact. Here’s how.
Impact Investing
Constancy and Thoughtful Realignment: The Next Era of Social Investing
The changing US political playground requires that foundations both focus on what works and actively explore what might work in uncertain times ahead.
Cities
Unlocking the Potential of Tactical Urbanism
Many small-scale (but scalable) creative efforts to foster tangible urban change, inspired by the burgeoning “tactical urbanism” movement, have met with success—and yet the movement itself faces limitations. How might this approach continue to evolve so as to effect inclusive, sustainable, and meaningful social and political change at the local level?
Education
Student Debt: An Opportunity and a Challenge for the Nonprofit Workforce
Student debt is hurting recruitment, retention, and diversity in the nonprofit workforce, but a Federal program is poised to help.
Impact Investing
Philanthropic Pioneers: Foundations and the Rise of Impact Investing
As impact investing expands in scope and sophistication, foundations are leading the way.
Food
Designing a Renewable Food System
Borrowing from the renewable energy sector, we can create a better food system by organizing regional governments to create markets for smaller producers and establishing coordinated networks that can amplify best practices.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Contributory or Disruptive: Do New Forms of Philanthropy Erode Democracy?
Modified from an excerpt of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies: History, Institutions, Values, edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, and Lucy Bernholz.