When Peers Work Together to Drive Social Change
Funders can build on “constituent engagement” by supporting peer groups as they lead their own change and work collectively to advance their lives.
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Frugal Innovation for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Crises
Organizations that reuse, repurpose, recombine, and rapidly innovate under resource and time pressures can help build a more inclusive and sustainable future.
Q&A Roundtable: The Future of Impact Finance
Six leading members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium discuss trends, predictions, foibles, and tensions related to the rapidly growing field their group has been focused upon for the past four years. The first article in the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
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Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow
A consortium of more than 190 professors focused on impact investing share new insights into the rapidly changing field at a critical juncture in its development.
A Better World Ahead Means Shaping Emerging Narratives Now
The groups that set the narratives about what happened during the COVID-19 crisis, what to do now, and what’s next will have outsized influence on who we hold responsible, who gets help, and what we do moving forward.
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
Addressing the Critiques of Well-Being
Social change leaders can better advocate and find funding for well-being initiatives by creating a more authentic and deeper understanding of what it looks like and the difference it can make. Part of the Centered Self series.
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Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding
K. Sabeel Rahman, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Joelle Gamble discuss tying policies to programmatic decision-making and stakeholder participation; democratizing and expanding community control of public goods; and creating more responsive, accountable governments.
Fighting COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Black Communities With More Precise Data
By weaving together an unusual array of data into a simple measure of a community's vulnerability to COVID-19, health care practitioners can develop tailored interventions to help Black Americans, who disproportionately bear the burden of the pandemic.