Environment
Beyond Activism
During the past decade, sustainability has started to mature from narrow activist fringe to broad-based mainstream concern.
Tag: Activism
Innovations in the way that organizations use civil disobedience, protests, and other forms of activism to advance social progress
10th Anniversary Essays
Fifty Years of Social Change
One of 16 special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead.
Nonprofit Management
Diversifying NGO Leadership
There was a time when the all the senior staff of international NGOs working in developing countries came from North America and Europe. That is changing.
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Transforming Multilateralism: Innovation on a Global Stage
The Open Government Partnership seeks to build more transparent, effective, and accountable governments that empower citizens and respond to their democratic aspirations.
Environment
Environmentalism Refreshed: P1
How can our environmental consciousness be productively enhanced in the new, urban, fast moving, techno-driven, unstructured, freewheeling, post-modern world of the 21st century?
Civil Society
The New Public Square
In a time of limitless connectivity, mass collaboration, access and sharing of knowledge worldwide, public media steps in to focus the clamor on civic discourse and social change.
Podcast
Global Issues
Using Social Media for Social Good
Stanford business professor Jennifer Aaker discusses how social media can do more than just provide entertainment—it can also prolong or save lives.
Human Rights
Searching for Gender Equality
To combat violence against women, mobilize feminist groups.