This is the long defeat, a phase Paul Farmer borrowed from Tolkien, who took it from the Bible. You’re fighting not because you think you can win, but because it’s the right thing to do. You can’t ...

Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than ...

For at least two decades, one question has structured much of how philanthropy and the social innovation ecosystem think ...

International non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have repeatedly won Nobel prizes for their advocacy work and helped combat major world problems ranging from arms control to global poverty. However ...

In our work at the Kataly Foundation, we now often hear people offer land acknowledgments, naming the tribe on whose land they live, at the start of calls and webinars. Events and conferences we ...

How the urban revitalization project Localize Gunsan breathed new life into a declining area by applying a pacer model that ...

Social problems are like Hydra heads: cut one off, and more appear. This is the frustrating reality that organizations in the philanthropic sector face every day. They try to solve problems to improve ...

Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...

Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our ...

Trust for institutions across society is declining. This is not a theory but a fact, affirmed by leading experts like the Edelman Trust Barometer, Gallup, and General Social Survey by NORC at the ...

Dozens of articles have proposed co-leadership as an attractive option for nonprofits, presenting the structure as a healthier, more relational, and less isolating way to work, as well as an appealing ...

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...