The B Corp movement has played a critical role in promoting socially responsible businesses. As positive as the movement has been, it has fallen short when it comes to ensuring that these same businesses make human rights a top priority. Read an in-depth analysis of this topic in our Fall 2017 issue’s cover story, “Do Benefit Corporations Respect Human Rights?” written by Joanne Bauer and Elizabeth Unlas.
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The B Corp movement has pushed a powerful model of socially responsible business that has the potential to advance human rights. But it has so far failed to engage human rights advocates—to its detriment.
A new approach to scaling is needed in which the goal is scaling up social impact for public good. Open access to this article is made possible by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem.
The National Arts Index established a quantitative measure for arts vitality in the United States that aided public discussion by policy makers and the arts community. In the era of big data, what can we learn from its creation and impact?
The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.
To fight deforestation, a UK-based startup is using unmanned aerial vehicles that can plant seeds 60 times faster than humans can.
New legislation around the United States aims to combat the widespread practice of shaming students who cannot pay for school lunch.
Several states are adopting the Finnish practice of distributing “baby boxes” to expectant parents—and taking the opportunity to also educate families about safe sleep for infants.
We Love Reading brings imaginative reading circles for children across the Middle East and around the world.
Sage Bionetworks is transforming the culture of biomedical research with open-source methods.
ChildObesity180 is combating the nation’s child obesity epidemic by incubating and promoting the best ideas.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has grown to become one of the world’s most well-funded foundations. But who in the Valley benefits from this largesse?
Impact investing has been seduced by a false narrative of combining social impact with financial gains.
Promoting menstrual health is critical to women’s economic empowerment around the world.
Impact investors have ignored the arts and culture sector, at the expense of the communities they seek to help.
Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.
Charitable appeals that address a wealthy person’s agency are more effective.
The Energy Foundation used a two-pronged strategy of engaging policy makers and grassroots activists to sell green electricity.
The funding ecosystem has a greater role to play in the survival of nonprofits than their internal structure.
The ultrarich are teaming up to make politics more partisan.
Although his advice could at times be more concrete, Kahane offers an effective critique of current approaches to collaboration and shows the need for a different way of working together.
Limited-life foundations are currently all the rage, but Fleishman’s book reminds us that perpetual, endowed foundations are in many cases preferable.
Carolan makes an ambitious attempt to analyze the social relationships that undergird our global food system.
Experienced educators provide guidance for those wishing to create and maintain effective partnerships between researchers and educators.
Puerto Rico has effectively declared bankruptcy, putting government programs and social progress at risk.
