Business
Why Some Big Companies Back Boycotts
Corporations that suffer from reputational threats often form unlikely alliances with social activist groups.
Tag: Activism
Innovations in the way that organizations use civil disobedience, protests, and other forms of activism to advance social progress
Advocacy
Anatomy of a Viral Web Video Campaign
With the right creative approach and the help of supporter networks, nonprofits can leverage web video to engage thousands, even millions, of people on a shoestring budget.
Leadership
Five Myths that Perpetuate Burnout Across Nonprofits
There is a pervasive fear in the nonprofit field that focusing inwardly—on our staff, our leadership, even our own salaries—will take away from achieving our organizational missions. That needs to change.
Advocacy
Taking Advocacy Campaigns Off Auto-pilot
A lack of creativity in campaign tech can stifle social change. Advocacy organizations need to take more chances with technology and think beyond existing tools to achieve greater impact.
Environment
Using Small Wins to Tackle Big Problems
During a critical period in its history, Greenpeace restructured its organization in order to leverage gains made at a local level.
Collaboration
A Movement Without Letters
How funders can listen better, step back, and walk alongside grassroots leadership.
Advocacy
Advocating an End to the Death Penalty
The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all.
Advocacy
Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations
New types of civil society organizations are powerfully and successfully using technology to campaign online and offline for social, economic, and environmental change.
Advocacy
Funding Research for Advocacy
How a commitment to effective messaging research helped reframe the debate around freedom to marry and win greater support.
Advocacy
Behind Today’s Breakthrough Advocacy Campaigns
New sources of power and grassroots energy are driving certain campaigns to scale with surprising speed and force.