Read about how civil society offers an alternative to corporate models of data giving, how active listening techniques can improve relationships with stakeholders, why equity must be central to any collective impact effort, how science can become more democratic and equitable through community-driven initiatives, and other topics in the Winter 2022 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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We face a choice between two models for donating data: one governed by corporations and one determined by grassroots civic action. The winner will decide how much control we have over our digital information.
Developing active listening techniques is essential to creating understanding and the authentic relationships necessary for social change.
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
A new generation of scientists and community activists is committed to making science more democratic and equitable.
With the dual goal of protecting the vital waterway and supporting communities that depend on it, the Cairo-based, youth-led organization VeryNile is partnering with local fishers and crafters to collect, recycle, and upcycle plastic waste.
Indian nonprofit Femme First Foundation aims to increase women’s political representation in the country.
A Philadelphia-based health initiative has delivered COVID-19 testing and vaccinations to hundreds of thousands of people in underserved communities.
A young architect is tackling water scarcity with a household desalination device.
Sustainable pine resin producer Ejido Verde uses an adaptive reforestation model to replenish supply and meet demand.
Civic science platform ISeeChange mobilizes communities to take action on climate change.
The National Geographic Society began as a Victorian-era institution of white gentlemen explorers dedicated to understanding the globe. To better reflect the world and thrive in the 21st century, it has diversified its leadership, transformed its internal culture, and created a media juggernaut.
Governments, academia, civil society, philanthropists, and the private sector must jointly take five priority actions to stop the global spread of disease.
Efforts at improving global education too often fail to have the desired impact. Outcomes funds can help shift funders and policy makers toward the most effective approaches.
Endowments are often lacking for social change nonprofits—even more so for Black-led organizations. By closing this gap, we could radically transform how we confront society’s most pressing issues.
Open-access to this article made possible by The Bridgespan Group.
Social enterprises do more for communities by eschewing the Silicon Valley model.
Education stops intergenerational transmission of disadvantages, Danish administrative data shows.
Employees who volunteer for social impact work may see careers harmed by sexist biases.
Targeted scholarships may draw underrepresented groups away from more lucrative funding.
Arguing that police reform is impossible, Derecka Purnell charts an alternative path to building safer communities and a more just world.
Authors Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff call for disruptive innovations and radical reconfiguration of industries to decarbonize the planet by 2050.
Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici recommend that organizations seeking systems change focus less on outcomes and more on principles and practice.
Authors of a seminal article on collective impact explore what it means to put equity at the center of the practice and how that changes the collective impact process itself.
A collection of standout pieces published online about impact accounting, intersectional storytelling, NGO endgames, universal basic income in South Korea, and a social enterprise supporting coffee growers in Central America.
The tens of thousands of Haitians who have migrated through Central and South America since 2010 have captured the attention of the media, immigration officials, and human rights advocates.
Achieving diversity, equity, and inclusion means putting disability justice in every policy discussion and making it part of the continuing struggle for civil rights.
If philanthropy is to build a more just and equal society, it must combat ableism in its own institutions and practices.
People with disabilities are on the front lines of the climate crisis. Efforts to address the crisis must include them.
The pandemic has demonstrated that disability inclusion in philanthropy is more crucial than ever.
Empowering people with disabilities at work advances social inclusion and is good for business. Digital accessibility is essential to efforts at Microsoft to create opportunities for disabled talent.
After many years of excluding the disability community, philanthropy is starting to make changes. The Ford Foundation’s awakening on disability inclusion offers a model for the rest of the sector.
Funders must abandon top-down, one-sided funding approaches in favor of partnerships with the disability community.
