The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, ...

Funder-owned strategies often reinforce donor-grantee power imbalances and focus on short-term measurable gains, thereby limiting philanthropic impact. Global and systemic challenges can be addressed ...

Systemic transitions require paying attention to organizations and institutions that need to die—and to do the work of conscious closing with responsibility, kindness, and wisdom.

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From system orchestration to partnership, to evaluation and learning, this series highlights successful approaches to collective action and examples of social transformation.

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“Today we remember that we come from those who, even in the absence of agency over their bodies, possessed a mysterious freedom in the secret of their interior worlds. An interior liberation that no ...

We need rigorous impact evaluations of AI in the social sector to ensure that it promotes social welfare.

To open your soul-body to the gap; to become a porous channel of temporal streams and currents. To encounter latent potential; to beckon and connect with furtive futures that impregnate you with ...

Ukrainian civil society is training both civilians and military on first aid and emergency medical response.

Diaspora Co. strives to bring South Asia’s heirloom and single-origin spices to the United States while ensuring that partner farms and farmworkers thrive.