It’s February 2026, and by now, we’ve all heard it more times than we can count. Bilateral foreign assistance is slowing down, and the aid sector is looking for other…
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Every year sees new climate funds, billions pledged for adaptation, forests, resilience, and technology, demonstrating how and why climate funding often doesn’t reach the people most impacted by climate change.…
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Click here for more.In the United States, we have become accustomed to bursts of solidarity that show up during movement moments and national crises. In the past few months, people and organizations have…
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Philanthropy isn’t short on generosity. What it lacks is visibility into whether that generosity is actually changing lives at scale and funding outcomes. Writing bigger checks no longer feels sufficient, because…
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Click here for more.The work of social change is always pressing, but those who do that work are under extraordinary stress right now. The polycrisis—which philosopher Jonathan Rowson neatly defines as “the world system…
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Click here for more.The philanthropy field seeks to advance long-term systemic change, yet much of its giving has been short-term, restricted, and episodic. These approaches are misaligned with the sustained, flexible funding that…
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Click here for more.Multilateral and government-backed cooperation agencies are among the most powerful actors shaping the future of digital governance. Institutions such as the European Union, the World Bank, the United Nations Development…
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If you are a funder, vendor, data provider, or nonprofit leader, this is a moment to act, and the Data Next-Level Practices introduced here provide a tool to do so.…
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Click here for more.Over the years, I’ve worked as a consultant on numerous federal grant projects from the US Department of Agriculture and elsewhere that focused on local economic development and were granted…
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Click here for more.“This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream—a dream yet unfulfilled.” When Dr. King spoke these words to organized labor in 1961, he was naming an explicit…
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India’s wealth is growing at a record pace. Stock market highs, liquidity events, and generational wealth transfers have created a surge in fortunes and, with it, an urge to give…
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Click here for more.I believe in the abolition of private philanthropy. Not just the power that private foundations have over both capital and people, but the conditions that make philanthropy necessary in the…