It’s clear that public discourse in the United States today is dominated by extremes, whether we’re talking about climate change or refugee policy. Many different factors are contributing to the sense ...

The election of right-wing firebrand Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's president last year shocked the world as yet another populist politician tapped into a nation's deep-seated divisions and the public's ...

Earthquakes, hurricanes, and other disasters are terrible—pain and suffering abounding, lives and homes destroyed. Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant new book documents and explains the other side of ...

News headlines such as “Half of homes have phones but no toilets,” and the diligent efforts of the government of India and nonprofits to provide toilets to the 48 percent of Indians who don’t have one ...

With our country's growing awareness of its own deep and systemic inequities prompting long-overdue reflections about how institutions need to change, the social sector is asking important questions ...

While it may be tempting to ask whether a system has changed, it is a question that makes no inherent sense. Systems 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, ...

It’s one of the perennial questions facing the nonprofit world: Why, despite the sector’s collective resources and best efforts, do so many social problems remain so persistent? This stubborn gap ...

America’s homeless response system has been called “the emergency room of society,” conjuring images of a space where the focus is on urgent intervention—finding shelter or managing encampments—rather ...

Advocacy and organizing for racially equitable housing policies is a cornerstone of building a just housing system in the United States. Since 2017, Funders for Housing and Opportunity (FHO), a funder ...

For most of us, participation on digital platforms has become a casual feature of modern life—from purchasing groceries to accessing entertainment, from getting a cab to scheduling an appointment with ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.