Advocacy Isn’t “Soft”
Evaluating efforts to promote shifts in policy requires methods that are at once rigorous and flexible.
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Innovative ways to influence public policy (more)
People, Planet, Profit ... Religion?
How legal challenges to the contraceptive mandate implicate social enterprise.
Performing Effective Advocacy
An education organization in Pittsburgh transitions from watchdog to community engagement as its mission evolves.
Global Issues
Climate Change: What Is Our Goal?
It’s time to restructure the climate problem from averting a distant global catastrophe to minimizing collective suffering.
Measuring Backbone Contributions to Collective Impact
Part two in a series on how backbone organizations shape the work of collective impact without formal authority.
CHANGE Takes Time
The long, hard struggle to alter US policy on HIV/AIDS assistance shows that advocacy can deliver a real payoff.
Lessons in Forging Global Change
The successful 15-year campaign to eliminate mercury-based medical devices provides lessons for others creating large-scale social change.
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Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future
Transformative Scenario Planning explains a five-step process for dealing with complicated situations that cannot be changed in a straightforward manner.
What Are We Doing About Gun Violence?
Part one of a seven-part series of interviews with and commentary by leaders working to reduce gun violence in the United States.
The New Economics of Innovation Ecosystems
A new strain of economic thought is emerging to explain how societies can grow sustainably.