Nonelected Community Representatives
Community-based organizations play a larger role in deciding development projects than local politicians.
Cities - Most Popular
Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities (more)
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and a $1 Trillion Moonshot
The promise of investing big in underserved entrepreneurs in America.
Connecting Climate Resilience to the Bottom Line
The time is ripe for companies to look beyond quarterly earnings and depreciation schedules, and into frameworks and strategies that will build long-term resilience.
Impact Investing in Victorian England? The Case of Model Dwellings Companies
What we can learn today from an early approach to improving social conditions through investment.
Podcast
Building a Culture of Opportunity Within Disadvantaged Communities
How the organization MORTAR is creating entrepreneurship opportunities for poor and minority communities.
Civic Engagement: Why Cultural Institutions Must Lead the Way
Arts and culture organizations have the power to drive the cultural movement America needs to deliver democracy.
A Different View of Mapping
New platforms are using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to challenge Google’s dominance over how we see the world.
Unlocking the Potential of Tactical Urbanism
Many small-scale (but scalable) creative efforts to foster tangible urban change, inspired by the burgeoning “tactical urbanism” movement, have met with success—and yet the movement itself faces limitations. How might this approach continue to evolve so as to effect inclusive, sustainable, and meaningful social and political change at the local level?
The Freedom, Insecurity, and Future of Independent Work
With a growing part of the workforce earning a living independently, we need a new system that provides greater stability and security.
Social Services
From Family Data to Neighborhood Outcomes
By offering better early support for struggling families, child welfare services can reduce the need for more serious interventions down the line and improve the wellbeing of whole neighborhoods.