If we are to go beyond performative gestures, we need to first reckon with the true scale of what must be done.

The current federal data system that we've relied on for decades is collapsing. While alarming, we now have a rare ...

The humble foundation for scaling is often the unimpressive numbers that measure the beginnings of true normative change.

Ahead of COP31, the test for climate finance is no longer what gets announced; it is whether money reaches the systems that ...

As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience ...

How one urban Indigenous organization is working to transform data governance using a model that’s founded on Indigenous values ...

AI is narrowing the pathways available to donors for finding nonprofits worthy of support. Nonprofits and the social sector ...

Billions in donor-advised funds (DAFs) sit like honey crystallizing in forgotten jars—sweet but inert—while urgent social needs multiply beyond the glass. According to a recent report from the Donor ...

This article is adapted from the full-length essay “Slow Philanthropy: Why giving by the ultra-wealthy often lags behind their ambitions—and what could help move money faste r,” published at ...

Kent McGuire and Matt Wilka are right. American public education is in a paradigm transition; the neoliberal era they describe overpromised and underdelivered, and the renewed democratic purpose they ...

Last year at Skoll, I went for an early morning run along the Thames with a founder who had won it all. Every award. Every fellowship. She’d graced every stage. And she was exhausted. Not so much from ...