Nonprofits
Ethically Challenged?
Does the nonprofit sector represens an untapped opportunity to leverage social media for social good among young people?
Tag: Activism
Innovations in the way that organizations use civil disobedience, protests, and other forms of activism to advance social progress
Podcast
Leadership
Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation
From concepts is his book, Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation, Stanford Professor Hayagreeva Rao presents the idea of market rebels—those that create radical innovations by challenging preexisting cultural norms. Social movements and activists create social innovation, transform markets, and bring about collective action through techniques that Rao introduces as “hot causes” and “cool mobilizations.” With case studies from the automobile industry, the microbrewery movement, and a campaign from a nonprofit health organization, Rao provides an outline of how market rebels apply these techniques to drive innovation. He spoke at the 2009 Nonprofit Management Institute, an event sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Podcast
Global Issues
Closing Achievement Gaps
How the civil rights and education reform movements are similar.
Technology & Design
Am I a (4) Square?
What are the benefits of social media in the social change space?
Government
Innovating Public Systems
With these seven levers, social entrepreneurs can foster change in everything from affordable housing to child welfare to poverty alleviation.
Government
Receiving Aid, Receiving Respect
How people experience government programs directly affects their levels of civic engagement.
Nonprofit Management
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
Review
Human Rights
Doing Good by Being Bad
MOVING POLITICS: Emotions and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS by Deborah B. Gould
Review
Civic Engagement
Lessons from an Organizer
CREATIVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn
Technology & Design
How Our Tools Define “Community”
Many of the tools in the social technology for social impact sector require us to operate a traditional hierarchy and distribution of responsibility, instead of distributing responsibility, and developing in an agile, organic way.