Business
Freedom of Choice
A lens for understanding business leaders' ability to act in alignment with their values.
Scaling
Against Rushing to Scale
When impact brings pressure to expand, leaders can (and must) carefully decide when growth helps and when it hurts.
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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Philanthropy & Funding
Giving Can Be Simple
(During a Crisis, It Must Be)
When the village cannot wait, philanthropy must learn from community.
Philanthropy & Funding
Development Philanthropy Must Be Partnership Not Patronage
Between hard bargains and charity, the future requires catalytic collaboration.
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Civic Engagement
Resilience Is Built Before the Crisis
How immigrant-led networks create community defense
Philanthropy & Funding
Beyond USAID
With the downfall of traditional government aid, local organizations around the world need infrastructure connecting them to private funding sources while protecting their missions.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Funding’s Hidden Curricula
An excerpt from The Nonprofit Paradox by Nehal Gandhi
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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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When Minnesota’s Civic Gyms Stayed Open
This article series, produced in partnership with and sponsored by the McKnight Foundation, brings together foundation leaders, community partners, and a mutual aid organizer to reflect on what happened during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
Food
Climate Help From Overseas
The agricultural city of Fundão, Portugal, is integrating foreign migrants to help with fire mitigation, climate resiliency, and rural revitalization.
Environment
Catalyzing Climate Action Through Universities
Ruta Azul, the sustainability and climate action plan of the Mexican university Tecnológico de Monterrey, has integrated sustainability into the school’s culture and educational model to build a community capable of addressing the climate crisis through coordinated action.
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Scaling
Scale Really Matters
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.