Becoming a Woman
A growing number of Maasai in Kenya are ending female circumcision and replacing it with other coming-of-age rituals.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Rethinking How Students Succeed
A wave of noncognitive skill initiatives holds promise for making teachers more effective and students more successful. Includes a new response from Raikes Foundation Co-founders Jeff and Tricia Raikes.
Five Ways to Build Diverse, Inclusive Leadership Teams
A new report underscores the need for education nonprofits to move from collective good intention to action in building diverse leadership.
The Chief Engine of Change: Conversation
A look at how Freedom to Marry used communications to make the “impossible” ... “inevitable”
Cracking the Black Box of Human Reasoning
We have powerful new tools to solve complex social problems—but how we apply them will determine our success.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.