What Social Enterprises in the Global South Can Teach the North
Many southern-hemisphere social enterprises excel at planning, scaling, and extending their influence—important lessons for the rest of the world.
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Somebody’s Gotta Get Rich
If we’re serious about solving problems, marginal businesses won’t do.
What Rural America Can Teach Us About Civil Society
Rural America can be both incubator and innovator when it comes to creating and maintaining civil society.
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Sustainable Disruption
An excerpt from Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability
From Feel Good to Real Good
We need to equip the next generation with the tools they need to deliver on good intentions.
Grant Funding and the Opioid Crisis
A look at how three direct-service organizations in Indiana are weathering an age-old funding challenge.
Civil Society and the Foundations of Democratic Citizenship
Civil society can act directly to solve critical problems, but its indirect effect might be just as important: allowing individuals to participate, collaborate, and—in the process—develop into citizens capable of upholding democracy.
De Tocqueville Redux
As America undergoes dramatic upheavals, one of the ways to understand these changes and to come up with solutions is to examine them through the lens of civil society.
Revitalizing Community Connection
Reimagining the Civic Commons claims it has built the first comprehensive set of metrics that connect the impact of revitalization to things like trust between people, neighbors' perceptions of safety, and a community’s ability to draw together people of different incomes, races, and backgrounds.
Strength in Numbers
StrongMinds looks to break the cycle of depression for women in Uganda and beyond.