The concentration of AI funding in profit-driven applications has the potential to drive widening inequalities in three ...

An excerpt from Connected to Place on applying systems change principles to place-based initiatives We know that systems ...

Transforming civic data in the United States is essential to improve our collective health and well-being.

Hand in hand with transparency is accountability. Promises about how data will be used only matter if they’re kept.

Nonprofit mission statements tend to be dull, earnest affairs. They are often written by committee—and you can usually tell.

If private finance is to shoulder the burden for nature conservation, government has to create the necessary incentive ...

In 2011, when we began what would eventually become Coefficient Giving, we set out to explore a big question: If someone had billions of dollars to give, what should they fund to make the greatest ...

It is tempting to say (and our backbone organizations feel) that there are as many backbone models as there are collective impact initiatives. However, we found that there is, at some level, a common ...

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 ...

Critically, community data requires the systematic collection, interpretation, and use of information that is produced on community terms. It provides contextual information about human experiences ...