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

Aligning return on investment (RoI) with learning impact (return on education, RoE) and social impact ( return on community, RoC) can ultimately help the ed-tech environment become an ecosystem—or ...

Increasingly, the lived experience of young people is shaped by what they experience online and what they do offline. Being nearly always connected, interpersonal relationships that characterize ...

In November 2022, Mackenzie Scott announced she had given almost $2 billion to 343 organizations, many of which are funds, as she calls them. In 2021, The Libra Foundation, a family foundation based ...

For generations we’ve been conditioned to believe that by choosing a career in service of others, we agree to sacrifice our own health, well-being, and relationships. But what if the path of service ...

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 ...

Business sustainability has come a long way. From the dawn of the modern environmental movement and the establishment of environmental regulations in the 1970s, it has become a strategic concern ...

Despite the enthusiasm for metrics, few people actually use them to guide decisions. In the nonprofit sector, good managers are very rigorous about tracking costs and income. But few use sophisticated ...

Since the inception of TOMS Shoes in 2006, the buy-one give-one business model has been widely embraced (and criticized) by consumers and businesses alike as an effective model for creating both ...