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The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement

How organizations handle disagreement shapes not only their internal health, but also the civic capacities society depends on.

From workplaces to civic institutions, disagreement is both a risk and a resource. This series, presented in partnership with Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, explores how organizations and leaders can treat it not as a liability, but as a source of learning, legitimacy, and cohesion.

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Grief Is a Gift

By Tom Chi

An excerpt from Tom Chi’s Climate Capital on building forward for the future we need.

What Else Can We Do? The Thirteen Intentions of Philanthropy

By Ariel Simon 3

A year of turbulence has exposed the dangers of philanthropic monocultures and upended assumptions about impact, effectiveness, and scale. Embracing the varied intentions that motivate people to give offers a more resilient, pluralistic path forward.

Measuring More and Learning Less

By Marco Di Natale

How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.

Meeting the Moments After This One

By Maria De La Cruz

Philanthropy's role in Minneapolis must be to build for after the current crisis passes.

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

By R. Trebor Scholz & Mark Esposito

How cooperatives, public institutions, and social movements can come together to intentionally build a practical, community-owned alternative to extractive AI systems.