Advocacy
Is Anybody Listening?
A new model for advocacy groups and organizations can help them identify and effectively communicate with persuadable audiences.
Tag: Activism
Innovations in the way that organizations use civil disobedience, protests, and other forms of activism to advance social progress
Foundations
Protest Movements Need the Funding They Deserve
Mass protest mobilizations play a critical role in creating the necessary conditions for cultural and political change. When grantmakers and major donors fail to appreciate how they work, they are missing a huge opportunity.
Business
A Mostly Vanilla Ice Cream Company’s Learning Journey About Race
How a business built on shared values between company and consumer can use those values to help navigate difficult social justice discussions and drive progress.
Civic Engagement
Civil Society and Authentic Engagement in a Diverse Nation
Discourse and dialogue have always been the hallmarks of civil society, but when the power of government is used systematically to divide and exclude, it is the stinging conversations and actions at the leading edge of civil society that will reestablish the democratic ideals of an equitable democracy.
Advocacy
Reframing the Gun Debate
To enact policies that reduce gun violence in the United States, advocates are flipping the script to make the conversation about saving lives rather than taking away Americans’ guns.
Civic Engagement
Bridging the Divide Between Idealism and Pragmatism
Funders and advocates must come together to build movements that can run successful and successive campaigns that result in good policy and grassroots power.
Advocacy
When Philanthropy Meets Advocacy
Increasing numbers of Americans want charitable organizations to step into the public policy arena and lead the causes they care about. Open access to this article is made possible by Civitas Public Affairs Group.
Review
Civic Engagement
Road Map to a New World
In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms argue that power and influence are being driven by a new participatory and peer-driven paradigm.
Review
Advocacy
Winning Hearts and Minds
The road to social change begins with personal connection and human emotion, Leslie Crutchfield writes in How Change Happens.
Advocacy
A Crack Opens in the False Narrative on Gun Violence
The youth movement against gun violence in America opens doors to a more constructive narrative that advances both gun violence prevention and the promotion of mental health.