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No City Stands Alone
Lessons from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis on defending our neighbors and democracy
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Environment
Concrete in Community
To decarbonize infrastructure, we need to look beyond technological fixes and learn to build coalitions.
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Civic Engagement
Protecting Our Neighbors
Building power in communities now will protect them from the next threat to democracy.
Business
Freedom of Choice
A lens for understanding business leaders' ability to act in alignment with their values.
Design Thinking
The Science of Norm Design
To solve problems that don’t want to be solved, design for the unspoken social conventions that hold them in place. Coming in September: An SSIR Webinar on norm design. Learn more
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AI for Social Good
We need rigorous impact evaluations of AI in the social sector to ensure that it promotes social welfare.
Human Rights
The Most Good Must Be the Only Goal
Let us take clarity from destruction as we redevelop development.
Impact Investing
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The problem with viewing impact in isolation
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Philanthropy & Funding
Funding’s Hidden Curricula
An excerpt from The Nonprofit Paradox by Nehal Gandhi
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Giving Can Be Simple (And During a Crisis, It Must Be)
When the village cannot wait, philanthropy must learn from community.
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Environment
After the Big Climate Summits Are Over
In Paul Almeida's Climate Change and Civic Engagement, the only pathway forward is broad worker-based civic alliances that go beyond narrow elite-driven technological decarbonization.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
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The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
Education
Welcome to the Era of Relational Intelligence
As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential for human flourishing.
Philanthropy & Funding
Scale Is a Myth! Embrace the Long Defeat!
Why the ghost of Paul Farmer wants you scaring the horses at Skoll
Philanthropy & Funding
Does Everything in the Social Sector Need to Scale?
In a world that no longer behaves like a scalable system, success must be something other than growth.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.