Social Issues
Water & Sanitation
Liquid Asset: How Business and Government Can Partner to Solve the Freshwater Crisis
Liquid Asset examines how the public and private sectors can better collaborate on our society’s pressing water problems.
Health
Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health
A new framework for understanding the opportunity for health care innovators to dig deeper.
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Reforming Data Centers and AI for People and Planet
The backlash we are witnessing reflects both a public frustration with how data centers are being built and growing distrust of what the data center build-out is powering. It is a two-tiered problem that must be tackled in tandem.
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The Data We Deserve: Reimagining Our Civic Data
The current federal data system that we've relied on for decades is collapsing. While alarming, we now have a rare opportunity to confront the shortcomings of the old system and reimagine a better, more inclusive data system that truly serves us all.
Climate Resilience Will Not Be Built by Press Release
Ahead of COP31, the test for climate finance is no longer what gets announced; it is whether money reaches the systems that protect people.
Funding When Democracy Is in Decline
As the United States joins the ranks of countries with contracting civic space, some lessons from funders with experience working amidst uncertainty.
Listening Is Not the ‘Soft’ Option
To make measurement meaningful and real, social change organizations must cultivate a listening orientation to go beyond "objective" measurements of impact.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.