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The late Carol Sanford’s The Regenerative Life was published in 2020, but in a world that is degenerating rapidly, it’s even ...

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Here at the Aspen Institute, we don’t really like simple ideas. Decades of work in poverty alleviation, human rights, school reform, and climate change have taught us that the worlds we inhabit, and ...

The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress ...