Katie Boland

Each dazzling gift makes the current system a little easier to tolerate. It sands down the cruelest edge, earns a warm headline, and lets the whole arrangement keep looking survivable. The suffering that might otherwise force a reckoning gets quietly absorbed, one act of generosity at a time.

Most conversations about responsible investing get stuck on a single question: how do we keep our money from doing damage?

In 2023, $3.9 trillion that would have gone to the bottom 90 percent of Americans in income went to

Philanthropy relies on DAFs and foundations to not just take the tax break but to actually move the money.

What has become clear to us is that the hoarding and stockpiling of money and power by both individuals and organizations is having a severe damaging effect on our communities.

Do you remember what the Internet was like in 1996? Slow. Difficult to navigate. Random. Text-based and small. A

What the founders at these two companies understood is that succession isn't just a transaction. It is a transfer of who gets to benefit from what gets built next.

In Year One, we didn’t just move $2.5 million; we shifted the power dynamics of who gets to own the roof over their head and the tools in their shop.

Here is the thing most people in the pro-democracy world are getting wrong: you cannot talk people into trusting institutions. You have to show them that institutions can deliver.

100% employee ownership means not having to wonder what the succession plan is, because we are the succession plan.