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It seems we're supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should celebrate its demise.

If one were to pause, just once a day, to extend an act of kindness with no expectation of return, what might change? The idea is so simple that it is often dismissed outright—too quaint, too idealistic, too fragile for the weight of reality. Yet, it is precisely its simplicity that makes it so powerful.

For most of human history, the powerful have found new ways to stay powerful. Feudalism, as a system, never really ended—it just changed costumes. The medieval model of landowners controlling serfs gave way to industrial magnates overseeing factory workers. Now, we find ourselves in a new iteration: a digital aristocracy, where control over technology replaces

To achieve systemic change, philanthropy must invest in culture that builds community power.

Community is billed as the cure-all for isolation, ageing and even climate change. But it takes real effort

As artificial intelligence increasingly dominates the knowledge-based economy—handling information processing, decision-making, and even creativity at unprecedented levels—humanity must redefine its economic role to adapt to this new world. This shift necessitates a post-knowledge economy, where value is no longer primarily derived from knowledge work but from human-centric activities that AI cannot easily replicate or replace.

Looking for a better path to knowledge sharing, advocacy, human connection, and stronger commitment? Mentoring can help with all four!

Community contributes to health and wellbeing. Here's how to build purpose, belonging and resilience as an individual and as a leader.

In the modern world, we have exchanged the act of creation for the mechanics of production. This transition has reshaped not only our material environment but also the very core of our inner lives. To create is to give of oneself, to engage in a process that bears the imprint of thought, love, and effort.

Foundations often offer loans to community groups. This may seem efficient but can make projects precarious. Gifting assets, by contrast, sets groups up for success.

Perhaps the illusion of the middle class was never an accident at all. Maybe it was a calculation, precise and cold, a grand maneuver in the service of a deeper order. That one might wake in a house they call their own - or the mortgage company's, drive a car they believe they chose, send

This moment presents a crucible for the nonprofit sector. Here are five recommendations for nonprofit resilience.

A man spends his life chasing things. Money, maybe. Or power. Or fame. It depends on the man, but the chasing is always there. He runs after something because he thinks he must, because everyone else is running too, and because stopping feels like failure. But there comes a day when he catches what he

The world of ideas, like the world of the body, has its infections, its parasites, its cancers. Thought is not free merely because it moves; its motion can be directed, shaped, determined by forces that do not belong to it. A man believes he is thinking, yet he is merely repeating. He speaks in formulas