Social Security is generally considered politically untouchable, but lawmakers have been fretting about its future for months. In March, the Treasury Department reported that the trust funds for the ...

Profit and Purpose—a blog co-hosted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy and CauseShift, a strategic consulting company—seeks to provoke new thinking about how companies, nonprofit groups, government ...

Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society’s biggest problems? In this Ted Talk, Michael Porter admits he’s biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear ...

Uncharitable, is a new documentary that introduces a radical new way of giving that can make the world work for everyone. A new documentary titled Uncharitable could fundamentally change what ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, AI has already significantly impacted our daily lives. Perhaps AI’s biggest potential lies in its ability to tackle some of the world’s most pressing ...

Social problems are like Hydra heads: cut one off, and more appear. This is the frustrating reality that organizations in the philanthropic sector face every day. They try to solve problems to improve ...

Barbara R. Metzler, founder of a fruit by-product company called the Farmer’s Wife, compiles stories of noted philanthropists, activists, and charity leaders, including Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods ...

Adults in Germany are better than the international average at coping with problems in new and complex situations. However, ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.