Philanthropy

Under the traditional capitalist model, financial performance for shareholders has been the primary measure of the success of a business. However, a growing awareness of ESG trends has given rise…

The daily news is replete with stories about the increasing polarization in our society. Many issues we once thought of as common ground, such as public health, have become battlegrounds…

Hostomel, a small city located just northwest of Kyiv near a lush forest, is a beautiful place for thousands of Ukrainians to call home. But five months ago, on February…

The Encompass Rating System reached an important milestone last month, transitioning out of beta and into its own as an evaluation system of nonprofit organizations. Over the last 18 months developing Encompass,…

Imagine a life fundamentally changed by a $1 investment. For over 800 million people around the world, there’s a critical tool to sustain their livelihood that remains out of reach:…

It’s no secret that millions of mission-related hours are lost every year navigating cumbersome grant application processes. To identify the needed top changes, a survey was launched by Laura Solomons,…

Across America, there is a battle being fought in state houses and school boards over the future of our society, and whether we will continue to build on progress to…

It is now widely recognized that current racial economic gaps are the product of generations of both overtly racist public policies and more hidden biases embedded in choices, policies, and…

Philanthropies aspire to lofty goals—solving seemingly intractable problems, creating a more just society, curing diseases, and deepening our understanding of our place in the universe. But the success of these…

No policy is ever really neutral. All involve value judgments (such as whether a nonprofit’s administrative costs are “legitimate” expenses) and all can and should be evaluated in terms of…