The election of right-wing firebrand Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's president last year shocked the world as yet another populist politician tapped into a nation's deep-seated divisions and the public's ...

Earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters are terrible—pain and suffering abounding, lives and homes destroyed. Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant new book documents and explains the other side of ...

News headlines such as “Half of homes have phones but no toilets,” and the diligent efforts of the government of India and nonprofits to provide toilets to the 48 percent of Indians who don’t have one ...

Civic Engagement The Emerging Field of Political Innovation Civil society has attended to social problems for decades while intentionally refraining from overt engagement with politics. But a new ...

As concerns mount about social and environmental sustainability, an unlikely planetary hero has emerged: the accountant. A growing collection of investors, academics, and business leaders have ...

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

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 ...

For all the hoopla, the definition of impact investing is still a dog’s breakfast. Inclusive definitions throw in everything from small donations (huh?) to investments that provide a market rate of ...

With our country's growing awareness of its own deep and systemic inequities prompting long-overdue reflections about how institutions need to change, the social sector is asking important questions ...

Have you ever heard of Kalamang? If not, you’re not alone. It’s an endangered language spoken by only 130 people and it has virtually no online presence. That’s one reason why, in 2023, it became the ...

America’s homeless response system has been called “the emergency room of society,” conjuring images of a space where the focus is on urgent intervention—finding shelter or managing encampments—rather ...

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. Since 2017, Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), a funder ...