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Building collective capacity; AI’s power for the greater good; grappling with systems collapse; lessons from collaborative philanthropy; and more.

A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.

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Pay-for-success contracts, also known as social impact bonds, have been widely touted as a clever way to fill the funding gap plaguing social programs by attracting a tranche of the trillions of ...

As outlined in Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World, a plethora of global examples shows how OBF can ...

In recent decades, philanthropy has increased its investments in policy advocacy to realize strategic objectives in issues ...

To fulfill the promise of government for, by, and of the people, we must radically rethink the role that government plays in ...

The current story of environmental politics has failed the American people. It is a story of political stalemate, partisan ...

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