Organizational Development
How Anonymous Self-Organized
The hacktivist collective built a framework to encourage and guide participation without direct oversight.
Tag: Co-operatives
Government
Rebuilding Trust in American Institutions
Three co-governance models the new administration can use to genuinely empower people, create more-equitable policies, and rebuild trust in democratic institutions.
Philanthropy & Funding
When Peers Work Together to Drive Social Change
Funders can build on “constituent engagement” by supporting peer groups as they lead their own change and work collectively to advance their lives.
Business
Cocreating With the Base of the Pyramid
Companies seeking to do business in low-income markets often make the mistake of transferring assets from higher-income markets to fill perceived gaps. They should instead look to partner with those who live in these markets and to identify the assets already available there.
Energy
Clean Energy by the People, for the People
After the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the “energy rebels” of Schönau, Germany, launched a grassroots revolution in the Black Forest to take control of their community’s power.
Review
Civic Engagement
Not Quite Everything
Nathan Schneider's chronicle of the cooperative movement dazzles with stories but is short on solutions.
Impact Investing
Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier
At Root Capital, leaders are using ideas from mainstream financial analysis to calibrate the role that subsidies play in their investing practice. Includes magazine extras.
Economic Development
A Powerful, Under-Used Tool for Addressing the Roots of Inequality: Inclusive Ownership
To disrupt the starkest income divide in US history, we must foster new ownership models that more evenly distribute wealth and assets throughout the United States.
Last Look
Cultivating Coffee Co-ops
Many of the more than 355,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Rwanda are members of producer co-ops.
Video
Philanthropy & Funding
Women Moving Millions
Swanee Hunt, founder and chair of Hunt Alternatives Fund, discusses the beginnings of Women Moving Millions, a group of female philanthropists devoted to supporting women’s causes.