As the industry and its financial model become increasingly precarious, a reimagining of how performing arts organizations ...

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At Open Philanthropy, a funder and advisor seeking to do as much good as possible with our giving, we are investing in safely reducing incarceration in the United States. Incarceration is a large ...

Microfinance isn’t a cure-all solution to poverty, but abandoning it would ignore the real evidence that responsible ...

Choosing the right path to scale depends on the nature of the problem we're trying to solve.

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Rather than formulating a perfect vision and then trying to elicit compliance from others, effective reform leadership looks ...

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 ...

In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the contradiction” between “what ought to be” and “what is.” This contradiction ...

If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 55 minutes defining the question and 5 minutes resolving it.—Albert Einstein Recent years have witnessed an undeniable and dispiriting trend ...

Homeownership is considered the American dream, but for millions of people who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC), the reality of the US housing system is more of a nightmare. Built on ...

We are living in a new gilded age. As close observers of the world of family giving, we are convinced this is an historic moment for families and the future of philanthropy as well. Momentous forces ...