The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress ...

Households are a function of housing as much as culture. As I’ve written about elsewhere, the single-family, two-generation ...

Bringing different organizations’ cultures together and building an effective inter-organizational culture can be done, but only if participants are savvy and intentional about culture.

Joining forces with government can turn small-scale social efforts into large-scale innovations that benefit historically under-resourced and underserved communities. The most pressing challenges of ...

This year marks 25 years of the Skoll Foundation investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and innovators who have generated solutions to some of the world’s most pressing ...

We are all shaped by stories. But we are not all aware of how much we are influenced by dominant narratives—or who holds the privilege of producing and disseminating them. Many believe that ...

If you work in corporate sustainability, you are probably used to being called naive or misguided for believing that businesses can be persuaded to help solve the world’s biggest problems. But Auden ...

Learning and evaluation can best serve both funders and social innovators by centering equity, trust, adaptive learning, and grantee approaches.

For the past 20 years, Shared Hope International has been working to bring justice to vulnerable adults and children who have survived and overcome sex trafficking. Our small but powerful team of 18 ...

Maria Medeleanu is a member of Team Kenya at the Reach Alliance. She received her doctorate at the University of Toronto in physiology (cardiovascular and respirology stream) with a collaborative ...

Anusha Alikhan is chief communications officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. She is chair of The Communications Network board and serves on the board of ...

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