Beneath every downward trend lies a story: a clinic that never reopens, a vaccine fridge left empty, a parent whose tomorrow ...

Marina Gorbis is executive director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people systematically think about the future in order ...

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Many say the challenge is near-impossible: Every social intervention is ...

When funders and field partners treat philanthropy as partnership, rather than patronage, the entire relationship shifts towards shared accountability, based on mutual respect and trust. In the older ...

It would be hard to imagine a more challenging time than the present for the United States to confront a global public health crisis during which people are asked to trust their government, the ...

So why is it so hard to do? The reason is that leadership for social change is complex, dynamic, and contextual. Approaching leadership development evaluation with a traditional theory lens ensures ...

Community-Engaged Focus Community-led research is an important but underutilized approach for funders to consider in their efforts to support thriving communities. Such research can take many ...

Beyond the ‘Good Enough’ Charity By Sarah Holloway & T. Alexander Puutio The next chapter for global development means learning from markets and building an accountability culture.

Hospitality is the act of discovering how to make people feel seen. When you have an exceptional stay at a hotel, it has likely cultivated a sense of belonging and comfort by managing small details ...

Proponents of impact accounting believe they understand why ideas like the “triple bottom line” have failed to bring about substantive change, and they believe they have a solution. They note that ...

The backlash is in legislatures, where 18 US states have enacted laws to prohibit agencies from doing business with financial institutions that consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ...

The breakneck rate at which people have adopted the generative AI writing tool ChatGPT has been astonishing. ChatGPT, which creates new text based on user prompts, surpassed 100 million monthly active ...