Nonprofits & NGOs
Plan a Meaningful Gathering
Four strategies for nonprofits and foundations that want to better align their meetings and conferences with their values.
Tag: Communities
Impact Investing
Valuing Social Impact Expertise in Impact Investing
The expertise and wisdom of social impact professionals is not as important to financiers as it should be.
Social Enterprise
Setting Young People on a Path to Lifelong Success
Activating the entrepreneurial mindset in young people is critical to their future success and breaking down structural inequities in communities.
Education
A Force for Equity in Parent Engagement
How an educational access collaborative evolved to give parents more say in creating educational opportunities for their children and help expand opportunities for first-generation students.
Education
Creating Career Pipelines to Serve Aging Populations
How education and careers connected to the aging population can provide an opportunity for economic growth.
Impact Investing
Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem
Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
Arts & Culture
Capital for Creativity
Impact investors have ignored the arts and culture sector, at the expense of the communities they seek to help.
Video
Organizational Development
Rethinking Innovation and Scale
SSIR academic editor Johanna Mair talks with Roy Steiner of Omidyar Network, Renee Kaplan of the Skoll Foundation, Jim Bildner of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and Christian Seelos, coauthor with Mair of the new book Innovation and Scaling for Impact.
Philanthropy & Funding
18 Community Foundation Leaders’ Advice for Jeff Bezos
Wealthy philanthropists can give help to those who need it most by investing in local foundations and their communities.
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Human Rights
The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur
In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.