The False Promise of Corporate Carbon Neutrality
“Net-zero” and “carbon-neutral” are prominent corporate climate pledges … that won’t come to anything.
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Seeking to Understand
An excerpt from Digital, Diverse, and Divided on building cultural intelligence to address polarization.
Solving Social Media’s ‘Local Paradox’
Local social networks are often filled with just as much misinformation, racism, and toxicity as global platforms, with effects that can be even more severe.
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Transforming Our Housing System
Housing is a complex domain. Solutions that repair our broken housing system will require a collaborative approach to funding and long-term systems change.
Why Funders Should Go Meta
Spending money on research, or improving the research process, is one of the most powerful force multipliers that philanthropy can leverage.
Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer
On the hermeneutic of generosity, the iron cage of rationality, and accompaniment.
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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience
A founder and director finds there is no better way to demonstrate confidence in people, systems, and organizations than to physically leave for a year at a time, every five years.
Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists
In times of extreme political polarization and governmental dysfunction, “leverage-first” organizations create impact by working within existing systems, however imperfect they may be.
Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable
Using a social justice framework for systems change planning can help leaders work out the root causes of social problems and create concrete strategies to solve them.
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How Impact Data Changes the Way Donors Give
A recent study shows that comparable, easily digestible metrics shifted donations from charities with only a good pitch to those with demonstrable results.