Building a More Ethical Blockchain
Blockchain can help with everything from refugees' identities to conflict diamonds, but it must be handled carefully to manage the values embedded within it.
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Social Issues - Articles
Foundations Can Unlock a Food System to Feed the World
Small farmers and food businesses are essential to building a resilient food system, but they need flexible, patient capital to thrive.
Advancing Equity in Health Systems by Addressing Racial Justice
Lessons on racial equity underscore the need to set explicit aims, build coalitions, and flatten hierarchies in order to strengthen healthcare’s role in undoing systems of oppression. This is the seventh of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Open Source Aid
An excerpt from The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry argues the case for openness.
How to Transition Social Solutions to Government
A framework for nonprofit and private-sector organizations working to transfer the implementation of their solutions to government agencies.
Making Places for Everyone — With Everyone
Placemaking strategies can improve city life, but they must be used equitably and ensure community involvement. This is the sixth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together
To build more inclusive movements, social advocacy organizations and activists need to create stories that can engage both familiar and new communities.
The Challenge of Negotiating Race in Cross-Sector Spaces
We must take on the difficult work of accounting for race and racism in our collective change-making endeavors or face the risk of failing to undo systemic inequities. This is the fifth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Next Big Thing for Pay-as-You-Go
Strategies for cross-sectoral partnership in reaching consumers in emerging markets through pay-as-you-go business models.
Clarifying Community Benefits to Improve Place-Based Programs
Place-based development incentive programs like Opportunity Zones in the United States and Enterprise Precincts in Australia need a robust framework to meaningfully identify and measure public benefits and the delivery of them. The Net Community Benefit Methodology can help.