How College Admissions Hurt Intergenerational Mobility
Changes to college admissions that improve the prospects of low-income families could boost economic equality.
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Science’s Diversity Problem
Minority and women researchers have more novel ideas, but they are less likely to be adopted by the scientific mainstream.
Cooperation and Hierarchy
Organizational hierarchy can make or break cooperatives, depending on its effect on the collective psychological ownership of members.
Donor Recognition and Its Discontents
The reward of public recognition can motivate or inhibit donors, depending on their prior motives.
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Volunteer Nation
Elisabeth S. Clemens’ Civic Gifts demonstrates how voluntarism, long associated with locally based efforts, has been central to the project of building a strong nation-state.
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Equitable Public Health
In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
B Corps Grow Up
Until recently, most of the 3,422 companies (in 71 countries) that have become a B Corp have been small and medium-sized, but a growing number of large, established corporations are starting to undergo the certification process as well.
Fighting Epidemics, Old and New
Highlights from recent SSIR.org articles on racial justice, well-being, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
All Black Lives Matter
A rally for Black trans people in Brooklyn, New York, illustrates the increasing success and power of the Black Lives Matter movement as a coalition that centers on the most marginalized.
Bringing Organizational Well-Being to Life
By committing to a broad, participatory learning process, social change leaders can greatly enhance staff positivity and resilience, as well as increase organizational sustainability and impact. Part of the Centered Self series.