Tools for Survivorship
A new trauma-informed app provides victims of sexual violence access to confidential support and resources.
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Saving Black Youth
A community rallies to save its children from gun violence through coordination, cooperation, and a shared goal.
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Volunteer Nation
Elisabeth S. Clemens’ Civic Gifts demonstrates how voluntarism, long associated with locally based efforts, has been central to the project of building a strong nation-state.
Creating Collaborative Solutions With Communities Using ‘Gifts Explosion’ and ‘See It My Way’
Social service agencies have too often excluded the communities they aim to help from informing and strengthening the programs purportedly designed for them. Here are two techniques for using a person-centered model that offers a better way to craft truly collaborative solutions.
Healing Our Health System, One Vote at a Time
How the work of bringing voter registration kiosks into emergency rooms has become more urgent—and more difficult—during the COVID-19 pandemic, and also expanded in scope. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Investments in Racial Equity Need to Move Inland
Inland regions are rapidly diversifying, and leaders of color in places like the Inland Empire need investment. Philanthropy needs a new playbook for this intersection of racial equity and regional equity.
How One National Nonprofit Is Adapting to COVID-19
Lessons learned at Friends of the Children about maintaining stability in service during this crisis and the next one.
Beyond Randomized Controlled Trials
How the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Evidence to Policy (E2P) community are integrating innovation and evidence into social policy and practice at scale.
Childcare Is Real Work
Mopi, a social venture that aims to professionalize and build a network of home-based day cares in Brazil, is helping to fill an important gap in early childhood care and education in Brazil. A What's Next article from the Spring 2020 issue.
Getting the Numbers That Matter for Public Policy
Unregistered births and deaths and other failures to officially document people's lives have compromised public policy around the world. Governments, nonprofits, public health groups, and other organizations that play a critical role in civil registration and vital statistics can start improving their efforts with these six insights.