This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Aquaculture has its own unique sustainability challenges. The most direct concern is the feed used in aquaculture, which accounts for 40-70% of production costs and places heavy demands on wild…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Donald Trump announced today that the United States will be withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. “This is a welcome decision from President Trump and a commonsense approach that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you want to put your money to work and to doing good, here’s everything you need to look for. Your aunt Cynthia has died unexpectedly. Our condolences. In her…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Why does such a large aspiration gap exist between what donors say they would like to achieve with their philanthropy and where they actually make their biggest bets? And how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For years, nonprofits have campaigned for funders to end their widespread practice of providing full financial support for programs and services, but scrimping on overhead costs. This practice gives rise…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some reports suggest that President Trump has finally decided to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement after many weeks of a back and forth administration tug-of-war. Trump himself…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Walking into the session, a question buzzed in my head: can we 7B+ humans prove to ourselves that ‘sustainable development’ isn’t an oxymoron, in just 14 short years? Susan Myers—panel…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Let me dispel a common myth: no, Christianity did not bring the idea of charity to the Western world. The concept of charity and concern for the poor was already…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We understand the sentiment that “charity starts at home,” and we used to agree with it—until we learned just how different U.S. charity is from charity aimed at the poorest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When your job centers on helping funders assess needs, devise strategies, and manage and evaluate their grantmaking, you wish that every field would have a resource like “Advancing Human Rights:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At first, fierce compassion may sound like a paradox. We tend to associate fierceness with aggression, and compassion with its opposite: altruism, care for others, and selfless love. In exploring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Commencement Address by Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF Washington College – Chestertown, Maryland It is an intriguing question – What comes next? I imagine that from the time…