Yearning to Breathe Free: No Immigration Reform Hurts Opportunity for All
The anti-immigrant trend line is deeply damaging to social innovation, social justice, and civil society.
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Social innovations that enrich society and enhance democratic participation (more)
Taking Exception to Exceptionalism
We need to shift the narrative to include the link between exceptional solutions and the systems change and scale needed to deliver a just baseline.
Podcast
Social Innovations
Connecting Nonprofits
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tells us about how he started CraigConnects, chose areas to support, and selected nonprofits to focus on.
Personal Democracy Forum Gets Religious
The Personal Democracy Forum revealed that 2011 is a watershed moment for work at the intersection of politics, government, and technology.
Big Society or Collective Impact?
How are the UK and US addressing the third sector’s next challenges, and where they are failing?
Review
Just Instincts
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Peter Corning
The New Bottom Billion
According to a new analysis, most of the world’s poor no longer live in the poorest countries.
It Takes Three to Tango
A European perspective on American civil society. A quick glance at the latest
thinking about not-for-profit management and philanthropy
reveals some profound differences between the ways American and
European practitioners look at today’s major societal challenges.
Thinking Small
The problem with “changing the world” is that it probably involves invoking impossibly superficial means to address oversimplified problems.
Attacking Poverty Through Jobs
I hope that as long as there is poverty in our country, there will be a Cincinnati Works’ model that can help families escape poverty.