Why Sustainable Investment Means Investing in Advocacy
Combining traditional impact investment approaches with investment in advocacy is the only way businesses and investors can fuel meaningful social and environmental progress.
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How Listening to Constituents Can Lead to Systems Change
Listening to participants allows nonprofits to go beyond the “what” of change to the “how and why,” the first step toward changing unjust systems.
How Science Philanthropy Can Build Equity
It’s time for science philanthropy and communication to cocreate a new era of partnership with communities of color. | Open-access to this article made possible by the Rita Allen Foundation.
Liberating a Captive Market
Nonprofit start-up Ameelio allows people outside of prisons to send their incarcerated friends and relatives postcards, letters, and photos—for free.
Playgrounds for All
Inclusive-design organizations are working to ensure that disabled kids are no longer prevented from playing with their peers.
Transformative Philanthropy for Racial Justice
We created the Democracy Frontlines Fund to enable experienced anti-racist organizers to do their crucial work. They taught us how to do philanthropy better.
How the Divestment Movement Wins
Activists use moral analogies with rogue industries and states to stigmatize fossil fuels.
How Anonymous Self-Organized
The hacktivist collective built a framework to encourage and guide participation without direct oversight.
Reconciling ‘Reeducation’
Residential schools were part of a nationwide assimilationist program for First Nations children in Canada. Today, communities are coming to terms with that past.
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Beyond Numbers
An excerpt from Prisms of the People on how collective action generates real, durable power.