Articles P1120

Building an Ecosystem of Community-Led Public Health

COVID-19 vaccine efforts showed how successfully centering communities can overcome mistrust and access barriers.

Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause

The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.

Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research

By Theodora Dryer 2

Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.

Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry Into Hospice

By Andrew J. Hoffman & Douglas M. Ely 19

If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.

Open-access to this article made possible by University of Michigan.

How to Build More Resilient Networks

By Michelle Shumate & Katherine R. Cooper 1

Social impact networks inevitably face moments of existential crisis. But networks can prepare for them by asking the right questions.

How Civil Society Saved the 2020 Census

By Arturo Vargas, Gary D. Bass & Karen K. Narasaki

A collaborative of foundations and nonprofits took action to mitigate the harms resulting from a series of unfortunate and nefarious events that jeopardized the accuracy of the latest census. Here’s how they did it—and how their lessons can now be used in service of the next decennial.