The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress ...

Joining forces with government can turn small-scale social efforts into large-scale innovations that benefit historically under-resourced and underserved communities. The most pressing challenges of ...

This year marks 25 years of the Skoll Foundation investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and innovators who have generated solutions to some of the world’s most pressing ...

We are all shaped by stories. But we are not all aware of how much we are influenced by dominant narratives—or who holds the privilege of producing and disseminating them. Many believe that ...

If you work in corporate sustainability, you are probably used to being called naive or misguided for believing that businesses can be persuaded to help solve the world’s biggest problems. But Auden ...

Households are a function of housing as much as culture. As I’ve written about elsewhere, the single-family, two-generation ...

Bringing different organizations’ cultures together and building an effective inter-organizational culture can be done, but only if participants are savvy and intentional about culture.

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We need more system orchestrators to meet the moment. System orchestrators play a critical role in bringing about transformational social change by knitting together actors and institutions, providing ...