Are We Still Involved in the Pursuit of Truth? If Not, Why Not?
Let's not lose our college idealism.
Advocacy - Articles
Innovative ways to influence public policy (more)
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Is partisan media an entirely good thing?
Podcast
Feliciano Reyna - Tackling AIDS in Venezuela
Feliciano Reyna talks about his multipronged approach to tackling AIDS in Venezuela. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, he shares his successes in influencing his government's policies and his strategies for engaging the corporate sector in this effort.
“In the 21st Century, the March Isn’t the Vehicle”
Cell phones, not marches, may be the social movement vehicle of the future.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
Time for Funders to Take a Stand?
Private and community foundations, as well as individual philanthropists, should be involved at the system and advocacy level of issues.
Nonprofits Shouldn’t Be Silenced in 2008 Campaign
Nonprofits can help voters make critical decisions.
Podcast
Oded Grajew - Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility
As a leading thinker on corporate social responsibility, Oded Grajew is challenging businesses, consumers, and governments to join in acting ethically towards a sustainable social good. With early roots in the Brazilian toy business, Grajew now heads the Ethos Institute for Business and Social Responsibility. In this audio lecture, he shows that business can be a powerful force for positive change and shares methods of enlisting everyone's help to build a sustainable society.
Podcast
Alice Tepper Marlin - Setting the Standard for the Global Economy
Social Accountability International President Alice Tepper Marlin has been leading the push to create a credible, comprehensive, and efficient verification system for assuring humane workplaces around the world. In this audio lecture, she describes the strategies the Social Accountability International's SA-8000 standard has used to get global supply chain stakeholders operating on the same page when it comes to providing employees with safe, equitable, and financially beneficial working conditions.
Podcast
Peter Eigen - Champion for Accountability
Transparency International is a global network with a mission to create a world free of corruption. In this audio lecture, Peter Eigen chronicles the experiences that led him from a directorship at the World Bank to the head of a movement to strengthen civil society by stamping out corruption. He reports on new incentives for good conduct that have made the elimination of corruption a cornerstone in the international effort to promote global equity.