Adapting What Works to Support a Community of Doers
To counter disruptive market forces changing the media, nonprofit communicators can adopt ideas from other sectors, their own programmatic strengths, and communities.
Sectors - Articles
Policies for Housing With Heart
Multigenerational living is an old solution whose time has come.
Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact
Bringing different organizations’ cultures together and building an effective inter-organizational culture can be done, but only if participants are savvy and intentional about culture.
Knowledge Is Human
Why building a trusted information ecosystem requires building a community.
De-Risking Press Freedom
How to fund, protect, and grow public interest information.
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These Times Ask More of Us
Practices that will help social sector leaders prepare to usher in a new world.
Collectively Owned Strategies
Funder-owned strategies often reinforce donor-grantee power imbalances and focus on short-term measurable gains, thereby limiting philanthropic impact. Global and systemic challenges can be addressed more effectively with strategies that are collectively owned. | Open-access to this article made possible by Dalberg Catalyst.
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Evolving Philanthropy for Collective Action
From system orchestration to partnership, to evaluation and learning, this series highlights successful approaches to collective action and examples of social transformation.
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Supporting Society’s Bridge Builders
In a world of increasing complexity and polarization, system orchestrators drive collective action to achieve outsized impact.
Strengthening Africa’s Urban Informal Economies
Conventional needs-based development policies can be harmful to informal businesses. Instead, development professionals must embrace an asset-based approach, identifying how existing collective solutions foster business resilience. | Open-access to this article made possible by the Concordia University Research Chair in Resilience and Institutions, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.