Marina Gorbis is executive director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people systematically think about the future in order ...

Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of ...

How humanitarian organizations can use cost evidence to survive global aid's "Great Depression" and scale what works to save ...

Alexander Puutio and other global development experts and leaders on how the sector can chart a path forward in the face of ...

For decades, nonprofits, governments, philanthropies, and corporations have been dogged by how to measure social impact. Many say the challenge is near-impossible: Every social intervention is ...

Three whys. Three times each. Pretty simple, yet if we really dig into those questions, discuss them with our teams, and ask ourselves what they reveal about where we are focusing our energy and what ...

By Jeannie Annan, Sarah Case & Justin Labeille. How humanitarian organizations can use cost evidence to survive global aid's ...

Proponents of impact accounting believe they understand why ideas like the “triple bottom line” have failed to bring about substantive change, and they believe they have a solution. They note that ...

Climate change and slavery form a vicious cycle. Collective action for a free and livable future is an opportunity to combat both at once.

Without these tools, philanthropies drift toward "good-enough charity": organizations optimized for perpetuation rather than progress. With them, a different culture can emerge, one that treats scarce ...

It would be hard to imagine a more challenging time than the present for the United States to confront a global public health crisis during which people are asked to trust their government, the ...

Platforms in the Citizen Sector Despite the potential that we see in platforms, the citizen sector has been much slower than the business world in adopting them. To date, there are only a few examples ...