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While recognizing that every founder—or other long-term leadership transition—has its own dynamics, it is important to think about readiness in each of the three key areas mentioned above: the leader, ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

To build an equitable and sustainable society, the social sector cannot take the place of the government, as Mark Kramer and Steve Phillips recently observed; “Only government has the capacity to ...

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

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How to prepare leader, board, and organization for a healthy exit ...