Why philanthropy should think of due diligence not as a vetting exercise, but as an opportunity to build deeper partnerships ...

Addressing complex social challenges at scale requires strong, well-connected networks that can coordinate action, share learning, and adapt as conditions change. Whether in philanthropy, social ...

From Model Ts to tea, organizations devoted to human flourishing need to build the human architecture for their people to ...

Many nonprofits face a mismatch of their budget and their balance sheet. Funders can help build stronger financial ...

For foundations, the path to achieving racial equity starts with a simple choice: Do you use your endowment to maintain the status quo, or do you align your investments with your mission? When I came ...

In 2022, our colleagues at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were struggling to address one of the world’s most profound child health crises: hundreds of thousands of children in Chad suffering ...

“THERE WAS THE MONEY, AND I DON’T DISMISS it. … I don’t need partnership funds. I need $50,000 to address our needs,” said the director of a performing arts organization. His organization had ...

How network organizations can use AI to better understand and support their members in real time.

Many nonprofits face a mismatch of their budget and their balance sheet. Funders can help build stronger financial foundations.

With our country's growing awareness of its own deep and systemic inequities prompting long-overdue reflections about how institutions need to change, the social sector is asking important questions ...

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction ...

Just over 10 years ago, JPMorgan and the Rockefeller Foundation, together with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), published a report claiming that impact investment was an emerging asset ...