Queer Activism Goes Online
Astraea’s CommsLabs program combines indigenous knowledge, technology, and healing practices to power the next wave of LGBTQI organizing. From the Summer 2019 issue.
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The Invention of Digital Civil Society
For nearly three decades, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has led the fight to protect people’s digital rights, incubating allied organizations and offering free security tools to nonprofits. Can it continue to uphold its mission? From the Summer 2019 issue.
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The Complicated Revolution
Sociologist Jen Schradie reveals how digital activism empowers defenders of the status quo.
The Future of Transnational NGO Advocacy
Three perspectives on the future of transnational advocacy, and how organizations can adapt to the challenges of 21st-century campaigning.
Keeping People Engaged in Your Cause With Help From Behavioral Science
Nonprofits struggling to keep supporters excited about their causes should follow these five recommendations to make the most of Stanford behavioral scientist B.J. Fogg's model for getting people to act.
Funders Can Bolster Democracy by Supporting Census Tech
Local governments and philanthropy are missing out on one of the biggest opportunities to positively affect the census: supporting the application of modern technology to increase the chances of a more complete count.
Women’s Groups and Funders Respond to Global Gag Rule
Four successful strategies to mitigate the effects of a restrictive funding policy that the Trump administration reinstated.
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How Social Innovation Can Fight Terrorism
An excerpt from Compassionate Counterterrorism highlights development-based interventions that have deterred terrorist recruitment.
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Getting Local: Collaborating With Communities of Color
Leaders working on issues including public health, human rights, and economic development discuss how nonprofits can do better by treating the people they’re trying to help as partners, not patients.
The Fight to End Cash Bail
The Bail Project began as a simple idea by Bronx public defenders to set up a fund to protect their clients from the ravages of an unfair system. Now their advocacy is part of a vanguard to overhaul US criminal justice.