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.
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.
Highlights from recent SSIR.org articles on racial justice, well-being, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
A rally for Black trans people in Brooklyn, New York, illustrates the increasing success and power of the Black Lives Matter movement as a coalition that centers on the most marginalized.
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.
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.
How Australia’s CQUniversity has committed to embedding social innovation education and practice across the entire curriculum. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
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.
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications.
