Funders want scale. I understand why. When the need is enormous, and resources are finite, you want every dollar to go further. You want good organizations to grow, strong ideas to reach more people, and successful approaches to grow beyond

A few weeks ago, my extended family gathered at my house to celebrate my son’s high school graduation. It was the kind of gathering that reminds you how much life experience can fit inside one family. Every person in the room

What has surprised me most over the past few years is not the number of challenges facing businesses. It is how little many business leaders are willing to say about them. Issues like artificial intelligence, climate risk, workforce disruption, economic opportunity,

For years, conversations about economic equity have been flattened into political shorthand. “DEI.” “Woke capital.” “Identity-based lending.” The language has become so charged that many people no longer stop to ask what these systems were actually designed to do in