Without mechanisms for incorporating disconfirming evidence, grantmakers miss the opportunity for greater impact.

Without mechanisms for incorporating disconfirming evidence, grantmakers miss the opportunity for greater impact.

The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...

Time 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT / 2-3:30 p.m. ET Karen Skelton has advised U.S. Presidents, Vice Presidents, U.S. Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, First Ladies, Fortune 100 ...

The frequent use of social indicators to characterize Indigenous youth—including rates of depression, substance abuse, school ...

The case for rampant relationality.

Cross-contextual learning has long been a vital tool for innovation. The pro-democracy field is no different, and a specific group of innovators are especially primed for and in need of cross-border ...

To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed; “Only government has the capacity to ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

In doing so, we encountered a host of setbacks—building relationships, recruiting and maintaining talented local staff, local ...