Realistically there will always be a gap between need and funding in the humanitarian sector. How can we do more for the hundreds of millions of people who need aid? We need to maximize impact for ...

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How can social entrepreneurship promote social justice? An unlikely source provides an unambiguous and practical framework.

In doing so, we encountered a host of setbacks—building relationships, recruiting and maintaining talented local staff, local ...

The frequent use of social indicators to characterize Indigenous youth—including rates of depression, substance abuse, school ...

Whether it’s in the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office, the quiet, segregated suburbs of Jersey, the mostly Black and Brown hoods of New York City, or the “colorblind” liberal enclaves of Boston, ...

Without mechanisms for incorporating disconfirming evidence, grantmakers miss the opportunity for greater impact.

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...

In 2013, the president of Rwanda asked us for evaluation results from across the continent that could provide lessons for his country’s policy decisions. One program tested in Kenya jumped out, and ...

Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers, but most CEOs do a poor job of managing them. As a result, more than one-third of those who volunteer one year do not donate their time the next year—at any ...