Building Up Impact
The spread of affordable housing impact statements offers US cities hope for more equitable development.
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Flush With Equality
Amid pushbacks against LGBTQ rights elsewhere, a New York City executive order ensures equal access to bathrooms.
A Big New Market?
Five years after the launch of Big Society Capital, its first CEO takes stock of what the organization has (and hasn’t) achieved.
Charity Versus Innovation
The response by US foundations to federal welfare reform in the 1990s illuminates their role in policy development.
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The People’s Budget
Participatory budgeting, which enables citizens to decide how to spend public funds, is building a more empowering model of democracy.
Increasing Voter Turnout: What, If Anything, Can Be Done?
Lessons from the voter turnout series, a collaboration between the Hewlett Foundation and SSIR.
Philanthropy as the Backbone for Collective Impact
Funders serving as central node for a cross-sector, collaborative network have unique advantages for success in an advocacy environment.
Boost Turnout in Primaries By Targeting ‘November-Only Voters’
A recent get-out-the-vote experiment shows that turnout in primaries can be cost-effectively enlarged and broadened by targeting voters who only vote in general elections and who are often ignored by campaigns.
Dismantling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
How the Palm Center used long-term, strategic communications to break down a widely held belief and overturn a discriminatory Pentagon policy.
Encouraging Millennials to Vote for the Issues That Unite Them
Building on a quarter century of get-out-the-vote efforts, MTV’s 2016 “Elect This” campaign will encourage young people to vote in support of the polices that inspire them, rather than the political system that doesn’t.