Cross-sector collaboration can help cities tackle complex social and economic problems, but results are mixed. New research ...

Cross-sector collaboration can help cities tackle complex social and economic problems, but results are mixed. New research suggests that how a collaboration responds to setbacks plays a crucial role ...

Urban strategies often rely on siloed, one-off interventions that fail to reflect the complexity of social challenges or ...

The decline and fall of ESG offers a cautionary tale for social impact financing and highlights the need for the sector to ...

Thirty years ago, people were calling environmentalists “tree huggers.” Today, there is rarely a conversation on Wall Street that doesn’t mention sustainability or climate. If environmental outcomes ...

What happens when a nonprofit program or an entire organization needs to shut down? The communities being served, and often society as a whole, are the losers. What if it were possible to mitigate ...

“Without innovation, we cannot meet the challenges of our time. […] We must learn not only new things, but how to learn. We need to share ideas, push boundaries and move faster. And we must harness ...

On a whim, an NGO leader walks into a fortune teller's booth. "My NGO has developed a proven intervention that is improving the lives of 10,000 people. We expect increased philanthropic funding over ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has rarely, if ever, seemed like an apt metaphor for the field of philanthropy. After all, philanthropy is largely insulated from many of the forces that drive ...

Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, technology was already a growing part of the Ukrainian economy and was central to the government’s vision to reimagine the way citizens and businesses interact ...

Just a few years ago, philanthropy showed what it could be at its best: nimble, coordinated, unusually brave. This time, ...

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