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 ...

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

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

“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 ...

Collective impact initiatives have contributed to systems changes and improved the lives of many living in our communities. In the next decade, they must focus on equity, shifting imbalances of power, ...

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

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

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 ...

Twelve-year old Anna has asthma. She lives in a low-income neighborhood and gets her care at a clinic affiliated with a major teaching hospital. Despite high-quality medical care, Anna’s asthma is not ...

In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. For this reason ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.