A Social Movement for Conservation
Because government action will always be dependent on public support, leading conservation organizations must focus on building a constituency for nature.
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How Foundations Can Make Progress on Long-Term Social Change Amid the COVID-19 Crisis
Amid foundations' necessary and immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, there are unusual opportunities to advance their long-term goals of building more just and equitable societies.
How Funders Can Help Save an Economic Engine of the Developing World
The COVID-19 crisis is threatening small and growing businesses in low-income nations and the capacity development organizations (CDOs) they depend upon. Helping CDOs overcome three types of financial challenges is critical to responding to the current and coming economic devastation.
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.
Creating a University From Scratch
How Minerva is reimagining higher education now and partnering to scale for impact in the future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
How the Social Sector Can Use Natural Language Processing
Uncovering invisible patterns in vast datasets cannot only automate a variety of tasks, freeing up people to do more valuable and creative work that machines can’t do, but provide new kinds of learning.
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Tech and Data That Inform, Inspire, and Involve
The public radio and television station KQED has thrived amid a tumultuous period in the media industry by using technology and data to optimize the delivery of its grassroots journalism and improve relationships with its listeners. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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When a Business Goes Digital
An excerpt from The Forever Transaction examines how Under Amour transformed its business by going online.
Crisis and Adaptation for the Public Good
How Tulane University rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with a renewed commitment to embedding social innovation and community engagement at the core of its mission. Part of Innovating Higher Education for the Greater Good, a new series from SSIR and Ashoka U.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Racial bias creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprofits led by people of color receive less money than those led by whites, and philanthropy ends up reinforcing the very social ills it says it is trying to overcome.