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The next era of public education will be judged less by the elegance of its ideas than by whether it responds, with humility and pragmatism, to the people it exists to serve.

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Both funders and nonprofits have long seen due diligence as a vetting exercise that primarily supports decisions to fund organizations or not. Yet when funders set about due diligence in the ...

Of all the issues currently facing the American nonprofit community, few seem to evoke the emotional response engendered by any potential effort to alter or repeal the famous Johnson Amendment, ...

Late in 2020, the Togolese Ministry of Health (MoH) put out a call for help. The office of the presidency had given the MoH a clear directive: Figure out how to make maternal health care free. Our NGO ...

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Quality, not access, will define the future of global health. We've developed a platform to improve health-care quality worldwide.