While recognizing that every founder—or other long-term leadership transition—has its own dynamics, it is important to think ...

How can organizational leaders create an environment that balances the needs of the individual, the needs of the institution, ...

Targeted, local engagement with communities coupled with civic education are effective strategies to strengthen information ...

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 ...

True believers in democracy must take steps to unlock people’s civic agency, with a particular focus on strategies that make ...

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The head of a large nonprofit that has been serving children and families since the 19th century and that gets most of its funding from state and local government recently told us: “We have never had ...

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, ...

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Spending an entire workday on Facebook isn’t part of a typical nonprofit employee’s job description. There are programs to run, decisions to make, funds to raise—all higher priorities than the online ...

To build evolving, inclusive, effective democracies, we must focus not only on developing leaders who are reflective of the nation-state but who can also change the conditions in which they operate.

Paul Brest, the former president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, has been named faculty co-director of Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Join SSIR Academic ...