In 2013, the president of Rwanda asked us for evaluation results from across the continent that could provide lessons for his country’s policy decisions. One program tested in Kenya jumped out, and ...

While recognizing that every founder—or other long-term leadership transition—has its own dynamics, it is important to think ...

How can organizational leaders create an environment that balances the needs of the individual, the needs of the institution, ...

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True believers in democracy must take steps to unlock people’s civic agency, with a particular focus on strategies that make ...

Spending an entire workday on Facebook isn’t part of a typical nonprofit employee’s job description. There are programs to run, decisions to make, funds to raise—all higher priorities than the online ...

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, ...

To build evolving, inclusive, effective democracies, we must focus not only on developing leaders who are reflective of the nation-state but who can also change the conditions in which they operate.

Nonprofits rely heavily on volunteers, but most CEOs do a poor job of managing them. As a result, more than one-third of those who volunteer one year do not donate their time the next year—at any ...

Cross-contextual learning has long been a vital tool for innovation. The pro-democracy field is no different, and a specific group of innovators are especially primed for and in need of cross-border ...

At the core of healthy democracies are free, fair, and trusted elections. Precisely for that reason, corrupting elections is one of the core tactics employed by authoritarian leaders around the world.