A grassroots movement to revitalize public education in Lebanon has shown promising results—and enabled schools to play a ...

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One of the latest trends in the development world is leadership localization, a term that describes a usually Western ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

Each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, leaders of color working in philanthropy across the United States gather to strategize, to vision, and to be in community with one another on an island where Black ...

The late Carol Sanford’s The Regenerative Life was published in 2020, but in a world that is degenerating rapidly, it’s even ...

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The unmet needs of disadvantaged people living in developing countries pose a complex challenge for development planners, but like many challenges, it also provides an opportunity for creative ...

Microfinance may be one of the world’s most powerful new solutions to poverty, as well as to the wars, diseases, and suffering that poverty ignites. If it works. Supporters of microfinance contend ...