This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we plan for natural disasters and the safety of individuals, we often neglect the institutions that capture our history and preserve memories of American life, allowing us to explore…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Excerpt: I’m the executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Very roughly speaking, we’re a group that’s thinking in the long term about artificial intelligence and working to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Congressional efforts to legalize unauthorized immigrants who were brought to the United States as children have been pending in Congress since 2001, with the DREAM Act garnering notable bipartisan support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Inequality may be the idea du jour, but culture is the reality that confounds. Whether we are able to make progress on inequality will depend to a great extent on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As part of our “Americans in the UN” project to share the stories of Americans who work for the United Nations, we talked to Chris Boian, who was born on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Roughly 800,000 undocumented youth stand to lose their ability to work, learn, and live in the United States following the Trump administration’s decision to end the program known as Deferred…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the reasons that nonprofits, especially health and human service organizations, have to turn away people is that there is a persistent myth that somehow, and for some unknown…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This diagnostic survey presents 31 statements that relate to five core processes of leadership development and succession planning. Its purpose is to help nonprofit organizations better understand the processes they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In collaboration with open innovation platform OpenIDEO, Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation is inviting social innovators to come together to address urgent global challenges at the intersections of peace, prosperity and planet in radically new ways.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite robust economic growth since the 2008 Recession, a surprising number of people have yet to share in the prosperity of this uneven recovery with the chance to contribute to…
Paul Shoemaker believes that we need more people committed to giving long-term to make social change happen. In his book, Can’t Not Do, Paul shares stories of individuals who have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I was first appointed president of the Ford Foundation, I felt joy and excitement about the work to come. Every year since then, I have offered a September message…