To make a meaningful difference in the lives of the world’s poorest people, it is not enough to fund promising programs or initiatives. It is also essential to equip leaders and their organizations to demonstrate excellence in all aspects of their work.

For that reason, we develop and distribute tools, lessons, and insights on best practices that will enable leaders and organizations to achieve an extraordinary impact—both in the field of global poverty alleviation and in the social sector as a whole.

Leading this work is Kim Starkey, President and CEO of King Philanthropies. Her life’s work reflects a vision of driving positive change by identifying and empowering leaders who can achieve outsized impact at scale. Kim teaches social sector strategy, leadership, and management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and she contributes frequently to publications such as Forbes and Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Kim has also codified her vision of social sector excellence in the book Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector (coauthored with William F. Meehan III). In that book, the authors identify seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-performing organizations apart from their peers. Together, these components form an “engine of impact”—a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world.

By sharing resources that emerge from such work, we aim to accelerate the ability of current and aspiring leaders to create significant, enduring change.