Traditional grantmaking, whereby individual groups or people apply for pools of funding through a linear, all-or-nothing process, is inefficient, wasteful, and opaque to applicants and other outsiders ...

Challenge.gov, which celebrated its fifth anniversary this fall, is a federal website that showcases requests by government agencies for the public to tackle hard problems in exchange for cash prizes ...

By Marco Dorado and Jack Murphy Colorado’s nonprofit sector is one of the most significant contributors to our state’s ...

In the 2015 Masters Golf Tournament, winner Jordan Spieth, runner-up and former US Open Champion Justin Rose, and runner-up (and hero to lefty golfers like us) Phil Mickelson battled for four days.

In the ever-changing landscape of philanthropy, the limitations of traditional grantmaking are becoming increasingly clear. As societal challenges grow more complex, the need for innovative and ...

At its core, research identifies an important question and derives an approach to answer it. But historically, the ability to conduct research has been limited to those with power, privilege, and ...

When he thought no one was paying attention, Secretary Miguel Cardona made it the official policy of the Education Department to award grants based in part on how thoroughly applicants embrace ...

Traditional philanthropy has a problem. The top-down, hierarchical power structure often undercuts efforts to make lasting change. In fact, the system itself can mirror the very conditions that ...