It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

By Janie Judd. Sometimes the cause itself becomes a blind spot. Nonprofit leaders must build out the systems that carry their purpose. Otherwise, they’ll sabot ...

Who wants to admit to their board that they wasted $100,000 because they were too focused on their vision to pay attention to the infrastructure of their organization? (I wouldn’t raise my hand either ...

Making effective decisions under pressure isn't about listing the pros and cons, but about working with how the brain works ...

A conversation with leading funders on effective responses to crisis, getting unstuck, and whether philanthropy is doing ...

With global education funding under severe strain, volunteer-based approaches to community-led education offer a ...

Anyone who cares about climate change has to be tired of the vitriolic tirades that masquerade as public debate over that issue. Climate change has become a rhetorical contest akin to a sports match, ...

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...

Impact investing is an opportunity for public and private money to support emerging markets that lack the capital needed for growth and poverty reduction, but the foundations are wobbling. Collective ...

In November 2022, Mackenzie Scott announced she had given almost $2 billion to 343 organizations, many of which are funds, as she calls them. In 2021, The Libra Foundation, a family foundation based ...

Although it is possible for impact investors to achieve social impact along with market rate returns, it's not easy to do and doesn't happen nearly as often as many boosters would have you believe.

It is tempting to say (and our backbone organizations feel) that there are as many backbone models as there are collective impact initiatives. However, we found that there is, at some level, a common ...