This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2014, five years after the Great Recession ended, more than half of American adults were facing serious financial hardship: 58 percent struggled to cover expenses and pay bills, and 45 percent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Foundations and individual donors need to reconceive impact in a way that puts hearing firsthand the experiences of those they seek to help front and center. If any area illustrates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The title of Alnoor Ebrahim’s important Measuring Social Change understates the scope of his thesis. It is a work on managing social change—highly readable, engaging, and illustrated by rich in-depth case studies. The book…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We can understand the effectiveness of the campaign in terms of the six-step framework of Aspirational Communication that I offer here. Step 1: Focus on People Who Are Ambivalent When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, an unprecedented and long-term housing crisis looms, with an estimated 40 million Americans at risk of eviction, many of whom lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2017,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For two decades, charitable giving in the US has been steadily declining. While economic factors and world crises explain some of this drop, experts have missed one overriding factor: For Millennials,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Paul Brest and Hal Harvey’s substantially revised second edition of Money Well Spentshows they have listened to their own new experiences, their critics, and many other scholars and practitioners In 2008,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Okey Okuzu first started using mobile technology to track health data in Nigeria, the system he used relied on texting via a simple mobile phone. The platform was a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Foundations say they are eliminating restrictions on existing grants, exceeding payout requirements, listening to their grantees on what they need to weather current challenges, and thinking about increasing support for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past 20 years, I’ve spoken with thousands of philanthropists and haven’t found a single slacker. Just the opposite. They put in lots of effort. But many confuse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What does accountability in philanthropy look like today? This was a particularly salient question at the Just Transition Forum, a powerful cross-sector convening hosted by the Building Equity and Alignment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every holiday season, Americans find themselves showered with mailed philanthropy appeals, beseeching phone calls and emotional pleas from Facebook friends seeking support for pet causes. How should they sift through…