Rather than making others feel bad, she’s flagged her flaws and triggered a more constructive conversation. That’s the power ...

By Philipe M. Bujold, Gayle Burgess & Lucia A. Reisch. At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few ...

At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and ...

At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and ...

For people who move money in the name of impact, the shutdown of USAID landed like a star collapsing into itself. The United States government’s flagship development agency—once the world’s biggest ...

Sometimes the simplest tools bring the most value. Simply asking “why?” can make or break a new venture or help an established social impact project achieve its goals. When I teach systems-led ...

Across the globe, humanity is facing a convergence of challenges, including rising inequality, shrinking civic space, climate instability, and growing anti-rights movements. These challenges are ...

Social change organizations in the United States have been accustomed to developing strategies in fairly resilient systems with relatively predictable patterns and behaviors. But the rapid speed, ...

What happens when a nonprofit program or an entire organization needs to shut down? The communities being served, and often society as a whole, are the losers. What if it were possible to mitigate ...

Philanthropic collaboratives are growing in popularity in Africa and share many similarities with their global peers, but they also have their own distinguishing traits. For one thing, African ...

Last year, a Harvard study on chatbots drew a startling conclusion: AI companions significantly reduce loneliness. The researchers found that “synthetic conversation partners,” or bots engineered to ...

Have you ever heard of Kalamang? If not, you’re not alone. It’s an endangered language spoken by only 130 people and it has virtually no online presence. That’s one reason why, in 2023, it became the ...