Philanthropy & Funding
Are the Elite Hijacking Social Change?
In Winners Take All, writer Anand Giridharadas calls out the hypocrisies of philanthropists.
Social innovations that enrich society and enhance democratic participation
In Winners Take All, writer Anand Giridharadas calls out the hypocrisies of philanthropists.
In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms argue that power and influence are being driven by a new participatory and peer-driven paradigm.
The road to social change begins with personal connection and human emotion, Leslie Crutchfield writes in How Change Happens.
The Heath brothers' book shows how, if we pay attention and work creatively, we can elevate ordinary moments into life-changing events.
When we pay people to do things that they know they should be doing as good citizens, they tend to devalue the moral basis for acting that way.
Participatory budgeting, which enables citizens to decide how to spend public funds, is building a more empowering model of democracy.
In an era of instant feedback and crowdsourcing, the government misses out when it relies solely on authorized voices.
An emerging "data-driven" science of human behavior promises to help us understand and solve social problems.
The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology.
Two books argue that entrepreneurs and technology are transforming the global economy.