Using Small Wins to Tackle Big Problems
During a critical period in its history, Greenpeace restructured its organization in order to leverage gains made at a local level.
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Between Two Sectors
When a for-profit company partners with an NGO, it must carefully manage employees’ adjustment to a new organizational context.
Unshared Value?
The demographic profile of Airbnb users doesn’t quite reflect the egalitarian goals of the “sharing economy.”
Review
Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.
Review
Not Everything Has a Price
When we pay people to do things that they know they should be doing as good citizens, they tend to devalue the moral basis for acting that way.
Review
Does Philanthropy Threaten Democracy?
We should be more concerned about foundations’ outsized role in education policy.
Review
Technology and Trust
The sharing economy can help us coordinate economy activity, but that’s not the same thing as building interpersonal trust and understanding.
Last Look
Cultivating Coffee Co-ops
Many of the more than 355,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda are members of producer co-ops.
New Tools for Measuring and Improving Employee Engagement
The number of companies offering employee engagement and happiness surveys, feedback tools, pulse checks, and culture assessments is exploding. How are social sector organizations using them?
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Designers’ Evolving Roles in Government
How can the public sector create a culture that's friendly to human-centered design?