Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, ...

Innovation stories on collaborating for greater impact, protecting and preserving history, affordable housing, an inspiring ...

While it may be tempting to ask whether a system has changed, it is a question that makes no inherent sense. Systems are ...

Sometimes a prosaic AI query produces something that looks more like parody. The other day, I asked Claude to give me the latest definition of “impact investing” and it served up this gem: “There’s ...

For people who move money in the name of impact, the shutdown of USAID landed like a star collapsing into itself. The United States government’s flagship development agency—once the world’s biggest ...

While AI global venture capital investments exceeded $290 billion between 2019 and 2024, less than 1 percent of this funding went to initiatives aimed at social impact. This stark disparity reveals a ...

Impact investing is an opportunity for public and private money to support emerging markets that lack the capital needed for growth and poverty reduction, but the foundations are wobbling. Collective ...

As the world changes, so must we. Humanity faces climate instability, rising authoritarianism, and possible new forms of artificial life. Social sector leaders face hostile governments, an uncertain ...

In September 2024, an article in The Economist posed a provocative question: Can evidence-based development programs, like those championed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo, scale ...

Across the globe, humanity is facing a convergence of challenges, including rising inequality, shrinking civic space, climate instability, and growing anti-rights movements. These challenges are ...

There are 40,000 families globally with $100 million or more in wealth. These families could play a catalytic role in a 21st-century renaissance, in the same way that wealthy Italian families ...

Social change organizations in the United States have been accustomed to developing strategies in fairly resilient systems with relatively predictable patterns and behaviors. But the rapid speed, ...