Mission-driven organizations should look beyond the tech sector and build AI partnerships with academia, CBOs, artists, and ...

There is no culture change without support for artists to become agents of change. SSIR.org and/or its third-party tools use cookies, which are necessary to its functioning and to our better ...

Take the ultra-wealthy women who’ve recently made headlines for giving away their fortunes. Melinda Gates has been carving out her own giving path via Pivotal Ventures since divorcing Bill Gates and ...

Strong IP protections will incentivize the human creativity that’s essential to improving, applying, and using AI.

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 ...

The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress ...

What’s the ambiance like and who does it welcome or leave out? When people who are strangers interact across racial and ...

In 2003, after a career in business, I began searching for the best ways to apply my time, money, and talents for the benefit of others. I quickly realized that I was not alone. Millions of baby ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, there has been much talk within the nonprofit sector about “strategic” or “effective” philanthropy, aimed at maximizing the social impact of foundation grants to nonprofit ...

Business beat correspondent and editor Eric Pooley parlayed his inside-the-tent contacts in Eastern U.S. power establishment circles to be a fly on the wall for many of these Beltway insiders, and he ...