Investors have a lot on their plates: inspecting quarterly reports, following market trends, meeting with management teams, sourcing deals, courting potential co-investors, and much more. It stands to ...

Throughout this article series, it has been fascinating and encouraging to read the authors’ reflections on the importance of putting racial equity at the center of the impact investing movement—and ...

What is education for? In a moment when curricula are contested, and civic life is shot through with conflict, the question ...

Roughly a decade ago, a coalition of industry leaders, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations in an American city tried to pass a ballot measure for a tax increase. The tax aimed to raise ...

It requires renegotiating the social contract that underlies education—who holds power, who earns trust, who gets to make ...

Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no ...

The concept of “strategic philanthropy” has been around for a while. While there is some variation in how it is defined, key elements were laid out nearly a decade ago: “outcome-oriented, ...

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance ...

Nonprofit leaders often grapple with the question of how big their organization will need to get to have the impact they aspire to. Inevitably, that question is coupled with the question of where the ...

Impact investing appears to have been seduced by a convenient narrative. According to the prevailing view, the achievement of both social impact and market-rate financial returns is the norm—not the ...

Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the ...