To Save Democracy, Fund Organizing
Philanthropies concerned with toxic polarization and growing political extremism should invest in community organizing.
Social Issues - Articles
Saudi Female Social Entrepreneurs
Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.
Anchoring Higher Education in the Community
At College Unbound, we aim to empower adult learners to transform their families, communities, and workplaces. We also aspire to transform higher education.
Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power
Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.
Discipline, Punish, and Palliate
Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.
Review
The Future of Elite Giving
The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?
Review
People Behave Badly
We learn a great deal about how people are complicit in wrongdoing from Max H. Bazerman’s Complicit. But we are left wondering why.
SSIR Online, Spring 2023 Issue
A collection of standout pieces published online about housing justice, ESG, funding social ventures, and the effects of large, unrestricted gifts on leaders.
Artful Disobedience
A collection of multimedia art called for solidarity with Iranian women in the current uprising in Iran.
Using Radical Re-Imagination to Create a Vision for Our Future
A lesson from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.