What distinguishes families that build strong skills is not money. The Baby’s First Years experiment gave low-income mothers $333 per month and found no effect on children’s cognitive outcomes after ...

By Ariel Kalil & Susan Mayer. Scaling proven solutions to the US skills gap requires building a market for parenting interventions.

This article proposes a simple way to think about that question for nonprofits: the Pay-It-Forward Threshold. Two-thirds of ...

For at least two decades, one question has structured much of how philanthropy and the social innovation ecosystem think ...

This is the long defeat, a phase Paul Farmer borrowed from Tolkien, who took it from the Bible. You’re fighting not because you think you can win, but because it’s the right thing to do. You can’t ...

How the urban revitalization project Localize Gunsan breathed new life into a declining area by applying a pacer model that ...

Over the last half century, movements to end sexual violence have challenged cultural norms about violence against women, raised awareness, and catalyzed significant legal and policy changes. The ...

In our work at the Kataly Foundation, we now often hear people offer land acknowledgments, naming the tribe on whose land they live, at the start of calls and webinars. Events and conferences we ...

Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our ...

Dozens of articles have proposed co-leadership as an attractive option for nonprofits, presenting the structure as a healthier, more relational, and less isolating way to work, as well as an appealing ...

Funders need to identify, embrace, and ultimately demystify compliance, reclaiming it as a tool that enables, rather than ...

Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...