How to Spot Democratic Backsliding
Data can guide investment priorities in strengthening global democracy.
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Policy Rooted in Love
St. Paul sits at the heart of a growing national movement—one that insists our systems serve people, not the other way around. This movement challenges us to rethink how government operates and calls us to lead with a new kind of courage.
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Restoring Trust
What we ask of our institutions, systems, and governing structures—to love all—we must also ask of ourselves.
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Empowering Public Servants While Advancing Equitable Outcomes
Our work in the Transformational Change Partnership demonstrates how investing in public officials can generate system-level improvements.
Rebuilding During Wartime
Ukrainian civil society did not have the luxury of awaiting the end of war to make the country more resilient and sustainable. The Alliance of Ukrainian Universities took the lead in coordinating an effective response. | Open access to this article made possible by the Akira Yamaguchi Endowment for Environmental Health and Human Habitation at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.