Writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and amid another wave of hype about the potential of new technologies to solve humanity ...

A look at innovations taking root in Brazil that preserve endangered ecosystems while fostering socioeconomic equity.

Pay-for-success contracts, also known as social impact bonds, have been widely touted as a clever way to fill the funding gap plaguing social programs by attracting a tranche of the trillions of ...

Today’s communications landscape demands that social sector organizations move away from a 20th-century broadcasting approach and toward dialogue, relationship-building, and fostering community.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Guiding Principles state that the foundation “focuses on the most serious problems facing society where risk capital, responsibly invested, may make a ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

A 20-year campaign to address America’s high school dropout crisis produced unprecedented gains in graduation rates nationwide. Can lessons from this campaign help the nation cross this elusive ...

Is it possible we’re doing communications work wrong? Are foundations and nonprofits stubbornly stuck using 20th-century ...

According to the United States Mission to the African Union, the US alone has invested more than $100 billion in African health over the last 20 years. Despite the billions that international donors ...

Everyone in the social sector, it seems, is discussing how to use data to deliver social good. The coming years will no doubt see the continued growth in data-driven nonprofits and social businesses, ...

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) present a transformative opportunity to address some of the world’s most pressing challenges, particularly in the realm of health care. While every new ...

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