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 ...

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

How schools can support both individual and collective thriving in our democracy.

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

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

Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to ...

At the same time, giving is becoming increasingly concentrated among a smaller group of donors whose expectations are fundamentally different—more relational, more selective, and more oriented toward ...

An excerpt from A Better Way to Fundraise on making major giving the operating system for fundraising ...

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets,” physician and health-policy expert Paul Batalden said. 1 This much-repeated quote captures a way to conceptualize equitable ...

By Nimesh Ghimire. Patrick Awuah launched Ashesi University as an institution of higher learning thoroughly shaped by social ...

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

Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.