This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Arts education isn’t a soft subject, it gives us: Idea Solving Creativity Reflection Similarly, Annette Bryd of GlaxoSmithKline said: “We need people who think with the creative side of their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. School choice has many benefits. It frees people to select the type of education that will best serve their families. It makes educators accountable to the people they are supposed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America casts a long shadow on discussions of the role of charitable giving, associations, and civil society in a democracy. While the nineteenth century Frenchmen…
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. 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. Here at Feedback Labs we stress the importance of 3 simple questions: what do people want? Are we helping them get it? If not, what should we be doing…
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…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reflecting on bits of wisdom to ground what will be my eighteenth year in the philanthropic sector, I didn’t want to defer to words such as strategy, impact, risk, and collaboration, which frame most conversations…