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

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

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

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.

You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first time—whether it’s a worker cooperative in North Carolina, a community garden, a labor-housing cooperative, a cohousing group in New ...

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 ...

The environmental case for America’s shift away from oil and gas is clear. Less obvious but perhaps more immediately tangible, however, are the economic benefits. Simply put, continued reliance on oil ...

As outlined in Scaling Impact: Finance and Investment for a Better World, a plethora of global examples shows how OBF can ...

In recent decades, philanthropy has increased its investments in policy advocacy to realize strategic objectives in issues ...