In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
By committing to a broad, participatory learning process, social change leaders can greatly enhance staff positivity and resilience, as well as increase organizational sustainability and impact. Part of the Centered Self series.
If nonprofits and financial advisors are serious about working with African American communities, they must commit to diversity and inclusion across their organizations, and dedicate the resources to identify, solicit, and steward Black donors on their own terms. SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks with Tyrone Freeman at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University and Stasia Washington at First Foundation Advisors. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
A new book by the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching offers changemaking advice for teachers and educators.
Philanthropic dollars can play a unique role in catalyzing the public sector’s transformation toward data-driven leadership and decision-making.
Interviews with millennial donors from the Silicon Valley startup world and conversations with MBA students show a pattern of overreliance on certain for-profit principles in the nonprofit realm, despite potential flaws.
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.
The philanthropic sector's past experiences with wildfires, hurricanes, 9/11, and other crises helped prepare it for COVID-19, but the unprecedented and ongoing impact of the pandemic raises worries about present and future challenges. SSIR publisher Michael Voss speaks to Regine Webster of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Brian Howell of Schwab Charitable. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360.
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications.
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.
