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Ensuring Free, Fair, and Trusted Elections
What recent history in Brazil and the United States has taught us about containing, countering, and sustainably preventing the corruption of elections by authoritarian leaders.
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Weaving Democracy Entrepreneurship Across Borders
Cross-contextual learning has long been a vital tool for innovation. The pro-democracy field is no different, and a specific group of innovators are especially primed for and in need of cross-border collaboration.
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21st-Century Democracy: Building a Transnational Innovation Ecosystem
Defending and strengthening democracy requires local, national, and transnational solutions. This essay series, sponsored by Keseb, shares strategies and perspectives from leading democracy champions in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States.
Starting With the State
Strategic philanthropy should go global and invest in good governance.
What’s Your Start Agenda?
Effective change efforts, whether activist movements or social enterprises, must focus beyond just the problem or symptom they want to eliminate.
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A Systemic Transition With Less
An excerpt from The Frugal Economy on regenerating people, places, and the planet
Our Best Bet Is a Long Bet
A doer’s perspective on big bets
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From Vision to Fingerspitzengefühl
An excerpt from From Vision to Action with 11 principles for social entrepreneurship
Graduation Nation
A 20-year campaign to address America’s high school dropout crisis produced unprecedented gains in graduation rates nationwide. Can lessons from this campaign help the nation cross this elusive threshold and inspire action on other social issues? | Open access to this article is made possible by Future Pathways/OAP, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
A Democratic Vision for Public Schools
Neoliberalism has set the agenda for US public education for decades, championing values of individual choice, standards, and competition—with disappointing results. Amid rising civic discord, is there a different vision for public education that would better prepare young people to become citizens and improve our democratic health? | Open access to this article is made possible by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.