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

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

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 Environmental Justice Resourcing Collective was created to fund work led by and for communities most impacted by ...

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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 ...