What’s Right with Kansas

Review By Sarah Kaplan

In No Place Like Home: Lessons from Activism in LGBT Kansas, C. J. Janovy offers up progressive lessons in a red state.

When Rapid Equals Urgent

By Michael Seo

The Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights has pioneered a rapid response grantmaking model connected to the global grassroots.

The Science of What Makes People Care

By Ann Christiano & Annie Neimand 21

Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.

Worldly Strategy for the Global Climate

By Henry Mintzberg, Dror Etzion & Saku Mantere

Progress in dealing with the problem of climate change will require that the institutions of government, business, and community work not in isolation from each other, let alone at cross-purposes, but by reinforcing each other’s efforts through consolidation.

The Missing Politics of Female Empowerment

By Nimmi Gowrinathan 2

Humanitarian nonprofits unconsciously reinforce the very conditions of women’s oppression they seek to eradicate in their programming.

Two Approaches to Advocacy

By Liam Kerr & John Griffin

Proponents of charter school expansion in Massachusetts thought that a ballot initiative was the obvious bet. They were wrong.

Foundations as Interest Groups

By Marilyn Harris

While old foundations typically support traditional public-school institutions, new foundations are seeking to reshape or bypass them.

When Funding Moves Away From Universities

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Foundations are shifting their higher-education funding to outside organizations that promote initiatives they favor.