How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems.

To address this gap between intent and practice, the Schott Foundation for Public Education engaged PTKO, a consulting group ...

Abundance and justice aren't mutually exclusive. Narrative lessons from three major advocacy movements of recent years.

Patient optimists have lowered their expectations of any particular program or intervention, but not their belief in a better world over the long term.

Experienced practitioners such as Rakesh Rajani and Tim Hanstad note that NGOs and philanthropies often overlook “the most effective pathway to scale solutions to our planet's biggest ...

What the next economic phase of artificial intelligence means for public interest work and how organizations can protect equity, access, and themselves.

Much of artificial intelligence (AI) in common use is dedicated to predicting people’s behavior. It tries to anticipate your next purchase, your next mouse-click, your next job move. But such ...

This is an exciting time for social innovation. Billions of dollars are flowing into philanthropy, market-driven solutions and social entrepreneurship are flourishing, and social impact consulting and ...

We’re living in an age of information confusion: Should we eat a plant-based diet? Does our vote really matter? Is social media a force for good? At a time when people find it increasingly hard to ...

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 ...

Although it is possible for impact investors to achieve social impact along with market rate returns, it's not easy to do and doesn't happen nearly as often as many boosters would have you believe.

In an area outside Hyderabad, India, between the suburbs and the countryside, a young woman—we’ll call her Shanti—fetches water daily from the always-open local borehole that is about 300 feet from ...