I recently spoke with a major gift fundraiser who had quit her job with a large health care facility. Why? She couldn’t stand the focus on metrics as the reference point against which her work was ...

“Nonprofits and NGOs are adopting (generative) artificial intelligence technologies faster than they’re designing governance and training for their teams.” Thus begins the 2026 State of Nonprofit AI: ...

The Myth of Heroic Leadership interrogates the nonprofit sector’s reliance on “heroic” executive leadership as a structural failure disguised as virtue. It challenges the deeply embedded belief that ...

When Maya Chen joined a Chicago based immigration legal services organization in 2021, she arrived with two languages, a paralegal certificate, and a conviction that her work would matter. Three years ...

The need for America to build quickly and at scale has become a lively debate amongst pundits and policymakers alike, feeding the so-called “abundance” debate argument that decades of regulation and ...

Social scientists in the United States have long wrestled with a fundamental problem: Most of the research about human behavior that they are taught has been conducted on Western, Educated, ...

What gives us reason to believe in these difficult times for our democracy? In Hope in the Dark, Democracy Fund President Joe Goldman lifts up hope and bright spots—drawing attention to forward ...

This story was originally reported by Marissa Martinez of The 19th. Meet Marissa and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. This week, the Senate will take up the SAVE America ...

Since Donald Trump was elected to his second presidential term, he has inflicted significant harm, successfully enacting over half of the policies outlined in Project 2025, a 900-page conservative ...

Philanthropy has grown accustomed to funding solutions. It buys land, backs technologies, underwrites services, and supports policies designed to address clear and urgent problems. Less often does it ...

For justice-centered leaders, there is a stubborn dichotomy between our genuine commitment to equity, inclusion, and alignment in our organizations on the one hand, and our continuing self-diagnosis ...

Over the years, I’ve worked as a consultant on numerous federal grant projects from the US Department of Agriculture and elsewhere that focused on local economic development and were granted to ...