Shaping the direction of AI’s development cannot be the prerogative of engineers and CEOs alone. Citizens have a role not ...

Building collective capacity; AI’s power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.

A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.

I’m old enough to remember the heady days when impact investing was about “patient capital” and concessionary finance and ...

The current story of environmental politics has failed the American people. It is a story of political stalemate, partisan ...

An excerpt from Connected to Place on applying systems change principles to place-based initiatives We know that systems ...

You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first time—whether it’s a worker cooperative in North Carolina, a community garden, a labor-housing cooperative, a cohousing group in New ...

In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest ...

Today, the planet is facing what César Rodríguez-Garavito, founding director of the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, calls a “triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity, and pollution.” With ...

As outlined in Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World, a plethora of global examples shows how OBF can ...

In recent decades, philanthropy has increased its investments in policy advocacy to realize strategic objectives in issues ...

To fulfill the promise of government for, by, and of the people, we must radically rethink the role that government plays in ...