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.

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

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

Sometimes the cause itself becomes a blind spot. Nonprofit leaders must build out the systems that carry their purpose.

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 ...

Philanthropic capital can't fill the vacuum left by the collapse of international aid, but funders nevertheless need to move ...

With global education funding under severe strain, volunteer-based approaches to community-led education offer a ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

Data is a powerful tool that affects every part of our lives, especially our individual and collective health. Civic data—a ...

Alexander Berger is co-founder and CEO of Coefficient Giving, where he sets the organization's strategic direction, oversees ...

Robert Atkins is professor, Anna D. Wolf chair, and executive vice dean at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Sarah Szanton is Patricia M. Davidson Professor for Health Equity and Social ...