When 10 social change leaders gather in a room to discuss big bet giving, you might hear 15 different opinions. One fact, however, will be shared by everyone: We have entered a big bet bull market.

Over the past eight months, philanthropy has committed billions to meet the urgent needs unearthed by the global pandemic and demands for racial justice. For example, a partnership of five foundations ...

How nonprofits in countries with conflict and closing civil spaces are doubly penalized in the funding world, and 10 ways ...

To create just, equitable, and self-determined tech futures that work for everyone, we need to center and support voices from the communities most impacted by tech’s biases and harms. A more just tech ...

This is the long defeat, a phase Paul Farmer borrowed from Tolkien, who took it from the Bible. You’re fighting not because you think you can win, but because it’s the right thing to do. You can’t ...

What distinguishes families that build strong skills is not money. The Baby’s First Years experiment gave low-income mothers $333 per month and found no effect on children’s cognitive outcomes after ...

This article proposes a simple way to think about that question for nonprofits: the Pay-It-Forward Threshold. Two-thirds of ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Lost among the oft-reported story of how Tencent and Alibaba dominate more than 90 percent of China’s online fundraising by value is news that China’s two largest banks, Bank of China and ICBC, ...

Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than ...

I became a nonprofit executive director at 29 years old. As the child of immigrants, I was aware of social and political inequities at an early age, which eventually led me to a career in ...

One evening in the early 1970s, Michael Pachovas and a few friends wheeled themselves to a curb in Berkeley, Calif., poured cement into the form of a crude ramp, and rolled off into the night. 1 For ...