As of 2023, nearly 20 million people are employed by the government at the state and local level. State and local government employees play a significant role in supporting and uplifting their local ...

When impact brings pressure to expand, leaders can (and must) carefully decide when growth helps and when it hurts.

Nonprofit leaders often grapple with the question of how big their organization will need to get to have the impact they aspire to. Inevitably, that question is coupled with the question of where the ...

“Community” is so easy to say. The word itself connects us with each other. It describes an experience so common that we never really take time to explain it. It seems so simple, so natural, and so ...

Preparing young people to participate and govern means moving beyond entrusting civic learning to a single course in high school or an elective on campus.

How can we teach students to embrace their civic identity as members of their communities and support them in leading our nation's democratic renaissance?

For foundations, the path to achieving racial equity starts with a simple choice: Do you use your endowment to maintain the status quo, or do you align your investments with your mission? When I came ...

Every year, thousands of nonprofit boards face the daunting task of hiring a successor to replace the seemingly irreplaceable: the long-serving, beloved founder. The transition is fraught with anxiety ...

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 ...

Two recent books explore the modern prominence of the global financial-inclusion agenda and argue about how it got there.

Since the 2016 election, many philanthropic organizations have invested in programs that promote democracy, including work to improve civic organizing, government transparency, and community-led ...

“Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it,” said civil ...