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Synergos Institute released a report on the legacy of the Alliance.2

MELINDA GATES Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

now to retire traditional charity as we’ve known it, and in its place create partnerships in which a shared vision

Above all, it’s about truly shaping the future. Whatever the outcome of the current administration, many people expect the Democratic Party to strike a determined counter-attack, polarizing the debate on the safety net even more. Instead of looking back at the past with nostalgia, the opportunity that we must all seize together is to imagine a Grea

Big Idea Two: Good Institutions Align Self-Interest with the Social Interest

In Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, the journalist Chrystia Freeland describes how those with massive financial resources almost universally use them to secure policies beneficial to their interests, often at the expense of the less well-off. In the United States, a number of studies have shown that i

The more charities give the public what it wants—low “overhead”—the less those charities can spend educating the public about what they actually do. And the public considers any effort by charities to educate them about what the charities actually do to be wasteful overhead to begin with. The less the sector educates the public, the lower the publi

The influence of commercial consultancies has reinforced this con-servatism, promoting approaches to philanthropy that never question, let alone challenge, power structures or systems, seeking niche solutions rather than structural ones, and backing already proven ideas rather than opening out to new ones. The net effect of these big consultancies