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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For most US-based foundations, the answer has traditionally been to focus on confined problem areas, projects like reducing malaria incidence, improving school attendance, or increasing access to safe drinking water. There are many reasons why foundations structure their giving in this way. And how can philanthropies fund it?

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Isabelle Leighton: I love that you’re starting with a nice and easy question, not like my favorite food or anything! And so, a lot of the questions that people have are, like, “How do I balance what I understand are these movements that are happening and also the needs that I’ve always given to and the issues I’ve always focused on?”

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” The intervention someone like Elon Musk needs is an entirely different economic arrangement. He needs to be dispossessed not just for society’s benefit but for his own mental health and wellbeing.