Platform Power to the People

By Sanjay Pinto & Beth Gutelius

The coronavirus pandemic has shown how digital tools can foster online engagement that leads to real benefits for working people.

The Dangerous Allure of Win-Win Strategies

By Andrew A. King & Kenneth P. Pucker 18

For the past 30 years, celebrated academics and business leaders have promoted the idea that companies often profit by addressing social and environmental problems. Although these proposals have been hailed as promising breakthroughs, they are unscientific and counterproductive.

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A New Era for Corporate Philanthropy

By Paurvi Bhatt 1

An overdue need to address social and health inequities has collided with compounding global crises, forcing businesses to reevaluate their values.

The Next Chapter in Design for Social Innovation

By Jocelyn Wyatt, Tim Brown & Shauna Carey 1

To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.

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Managing Through Crisis

By Allison Frailich & Liz Lund

Six lessons on how corporate philanthropies can strengthen community connection and communications.

Business Disruption From the Inside Out

By Forrest Briscoe & Abhinav Gupta

Employees increasingly want their employers to become more responsible corporate citizens. Here is a playbook for how employees can be effective change agents and how leaders can respond to employee activism.
Open-access to this article made possible by The Pennsylvania State University and The University of Washington.

The Future of Fashion

By Payal Mohta

With the goal of reducing pollution, Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good created the Good Fashion Fund (GFF), the first investment fund focused exclusively on encouraging collaborations between fashion and technology.

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Building Resiliency in Times of Crisis

By Hal Beckham, Jessica Dreher & Donna Scheck

Funders must shift their frameworks, expectations, and budgets to better serve nonprofits whose financial models are being tested during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Nonprofit Networked Platform for Global Health

By Tamara Kay & Jason Spicer

Project ECHO developed a revolutionary model for helping doctors and clinicians in New Mexico to treat hepatitis C. It spread around the world to address numerous chronic diseases. With the COVID-19 pandemic, it found its moment.

Applying a Gender Lens to Social Entrepreneurship

By Winthrop Carty

The social sector will flourish through embracing less patriarchal and more collaborative approaches that focus on long-term systemic change.