Activism | Tags

Tag: Activism

Innovations in the way that organizations use civil disobedience, protests, and other forms of activism to advance social progress

Excerpt

What’s So Powerful About Storytelling?

By Lindsay Pedersen

An excerpt from Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader's Guide explores story as a way to command attention and persuade.

Excerpt

Open Source Aid

By Raj Kumar 3

An excerpt from The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry argues the case for openness.

How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together

By Annie Neimand & Samantha Wright

To build more inclusive movements, social advocacy organizations and activists need to create stories that can engage both familiar and new communities.

Excerpt

Developing Digital Culture

By Gerald C. Kane, Anh Nguyen Phillips, Jonathan R. Copulsky & Garth R. Andrus

An excerpt from The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation explains the value of culture in organizational work.

The Challenge of Negotiating Race in Cross-Sector Spaces

By Tabitha Bentley 1

We must take on the difficult work of accounting for race and racism in our collective change-making endeavors or face the risk of failing to undo systemic inequities. This is the fifth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Human Rights

New Alliances for Human Rights

By Pablo Medina Uribe

PROVEA is spreading the word about Venezuela’s political and economic crisis while building alliances in neighboring countries. From the What's Next department of the Summer 2019 issue.

Technology

Queer Activism Goes Online

By Kenrya Rankin

Astraea’s CommsLabs program combines indigenous knowledge, technology, and healing practices to power the next wave of LGBTQI organizing. From the Summer 2019 issue.

Nonprofits & NGOs

The Invention of Digital Civil Society

By Lucy Bernholz 1

For nearly three decades, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has led the fight to protect people’s digital rights, incubating allied organizations and offering free security tools to nonprofits. Can it continue to uphold its mission? From the Summer 2019 issue.

Civic Engagement

Coming Together Amid Difference

By Marilyn Harris

Racial and economic segregation hampers local civic action, but public schools can serve as a facilitator. A research report from the Summer 2019 issue.