How to Use Stories to Bring ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ Together
To build more inclusive movements, social advocacy organizations and activists need to create stories that can engage both familiar and new communities.
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The Challenge of Negotiating Race in Cross-Sector Spaces
We must take on the difficult work of accounting for race and racism in our collective change-making endeavors or face the risk of failing to undo systemic inequities. This is the fifth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Next Big Thing for Pay-as-You-Go
Strategies for cross-sectoral partnership in reaching consumers in emerging markets through pay-as-you-go business models.
Clarifying Community Benefits to Improve Place-Based Programs
Place-based development incentive programs like Opportunity Zones in the United States and Enterprise Precincts in Australia need a robust framework to meaningfully identify and measure public benefits and the delivery of them. The Net Community Benefit Methodology can help.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
How to Transition Your Investment Portfolio Toward Impact
A review of dozens of case studies, industry reports, and discussions reveals important insights into impact investing from innovators and early adopters.
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A Hippocratic Oath for Our Digital Lives
The social sector has an opportunity to create digital spaces that give people a meaningful role in shaping a collective future.
How to Push DEI Conversations Out of the Comfort Zone
As we work to advance racial equity in philanthropy, four practices can help us achieve changes that are truly transformative. This is the third of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Women and the Future of Work
The strategies companies and policy makers are designing to address the changing nature of work need to include a gender lens if they are to help foster the economic empowerment of women.
Three Cheers for Regulation
During the Industrial Revolution, labor organizations, social movements, the media, and government came together to rein in big business, providing lessons on how to regulate firms of today like Facebook, Amazon, and Google, writes SSIR's editor-in-chief in an introduction to the Summer 2019 issue.