Investments in digital innovation have the potential to greatly expand access to education, but creating new, high-quality, ...

Leaders of several intermediary organizations share how they envision their role within—and how they ultimately hope to upend—the philanthropic landscape.

What looks like racial progress at many nonprofits can set up leaders of color to fail. I had just been handed the keys to a ...

Philanthropy’s constructive critics, financial activists, and virtually all nonprofits have long argued for a dramatic increase in unrestricted grantmaking. Yet grants untethered from funder ...

A new data-based initiative is helping businesses measure the racial equity of their workforce and take steps to improve it.

Evidence is powerful: It helps us understand the needs of communities, make decisions in times of complexity, and generate stronger and more equitable outcomes. However, practitioners face a number of ...

The benefits of data standardization within the social sector—and indeed just about any industry—are multiple, important, and undeniable. Access to the same type of data over time lends the ability to ...

On a recent visit to rural Andhra Pradesh we stopped to buy a cup of tea from a chaiwallah, an informal entrepreneur selling tea by the roadside. After producing a hot cup of masala chai, she gave us ...

Scientists, along with the general public, have been amazed at the rapid advancements and public explosion of Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI tools over the past year. Many scientists have also ...