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(Patheos, June 13, 2025), In a world overflowing with hashtags and hot takes, it’s easy to feel paralyzed by the scale of suffering or swept up in performative activism …

(Mentors Collective, April 2025) “Sometimes I feel like everything is broken,” a college student once told me.  Talk to young people today, and your heart may break. They grew up with 9/11, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, climate change, uncertain economic times, and Covid. Their world is flooded with misinformation and disinformation, racism, misogyny, and

(Huffpost, Nov 2013, by Neil Ghosh) It’s election time again in the United States. Although Tuesday’s off-season voting in a series of states will not alter the balance of political power in any significant way, it takes place amid the reverberations of a host of truly big issues. The recent government shutdown, the wrangle over

(Devex, November 2015, by Neil Ghosh) I recently attended an excellent session titled “Supporting early stage social enterprises,” at the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. Although the session was attended by leaders from the diverse worlds of nonprofit nongovernmental organizations, foundations and the private sector, there was a clear consensus in the room on

(Huffpost, May 2015, by Neil Ghosh) I recently attended the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East and Africa meeting in Marrakech, Morocco. As I prepared for the trip, some of my friends and family expressed concerns about my safety. Their worries were understandable — headlines from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) focus almost exclusively

(Devex, October 2016, by Neil Ghosh, Kristin Lobron) The transformation of economic activity in low-income markets over the past two decades is staggering, and development executives are faced with the need to re-envision models for steering growth. Neil Ghosh and Kristin Lobron look at four big trends that global development professional must understand. The transformation

(SSIR, Jan 2016, by Neil Ghosh) European leaders are fighting to cope with tides of people coming from regions where prolonged and recently escalated conflicts have fostered hopelessness so intractable that entire populations have no better survival option than to risk their lives in flight. They all agree that an important component of any successful

(Devex, December 2016, by Neil Ghosh) With the United States’ presidential election over and the transition to a new administration underway, leaders on both sides of the aisle now have the opportunity to renew their focus on a truly bipartisan issue: reducing acts of violence and terror perpetrated by young people in the U.S. and

(Devex, April 2017, by Neil Ghosh) Investing in human resources is critical to any organization seeking to make a real difference in people’s lives — and not for the reasons you may think. A strategic plan requires a qualified team to execute it. But more importantly, developing human resources is at the heart of how we build