Neighbors filled the seats and were standing in the aisles. We watched Trump unveil his self-proclaimed “masterpiece,” ...

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By focusing on reducing the prevalence of problems, not just supplying solutions, innovations for a healthy context can ...

A grassroots movement to revitalize public education in Lebanon has shown promising results—and enabled schools to play a ...

Innovation stories on social connection, empowering youth, and revitalizing green spaces offer some year-end inspiration.

Almost 30 years ago, my family bought a small farm along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois near the historic town of Galena. The farm has a couple of pastures where the neighbors’ ...

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and director of the Earth Institute, is one of our leading public intellectuals. A trained economist (who became a full professor at Harvard University ...

The late Carol Sanford’s The Regenerative Life was published in 2020, but in a world that is degenerating rapidly, it’s even ...

The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

In 1996, Jeroo Billimoria launched Childline, India's first 24-hour emergency telephone service, to provide police assistance and healthcare for homeless children. Childline responded to more than a ...

In the midst of the worldwide financial crisis, funders are increasingly suggesting that nonprofits consider merging—that is, fusing their boards, management, and legal entities to form a single ...