Global Issues

Building an Intentional and Inclusive Civic Infrastructure

By Stephen Patrick & Sheri Brady 1

To address 21st-century problems, we need to build a civic infrastructure that serves all members of society, especially those on the margins.

Building Movements, Not Organizations

By Hildy Gottlieb 24

Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely.

Improving Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships

By Antony Bugg-Levine & Kerry Sullivan 9

Three ways corporations can more effectively partner with nonprofits.

Big and Fast Is Not Better

By Daniel Moss 1

Building relationships with grassroots organizations that advocate for human rights-based development takes time, but without investing in them, philanthropy is likely to stumble. The case of Haiti is instructive.

The Eurozone’s Great Big Network Crisis

By Paul Vandeventer

Conflicts are inevitable when groups (or countries) harness the power of networked action; it’s up to leaders to plan for the worst to achieve the best.

Using Social Incubation to Drive Local Innovation

By Gabriel Seidman & Teresa Chahine 1

A look at why and how social innovation can catalyze solutions for local problems from within the community, rather than by importing ideas from the outside.

Naming the Mindsets of Innovation

By David Dabscheck 1

Social sector leaders can encourage innovation by fostering three productive mindsets.

Practical Advice

Creating Health in the 21st Century

By Leigh Carroll & Bridget B. Kelly 1

Five principles to guide how communities can develop new pathways to health, plus concrete steps toward contributing to a culture that values connections and relationships as much as treatments and health campaigns.

Communities Can Set the Course for Lasting Change

By Ann Austin 2

Communities have the resources to address the problems they face; they just need to approach those problems in a different way.