Business
The Macro Benefits of Microbusinesses
New recommendations for the very small businesses that help communities prosper.
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Collaboration
Catastrophic Times: Leadership, When Everyone Is Down
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, a nonprofit leader shares lessons on preparedness, collaboration, and resilience.
Philanthropy & Funding
Paid in Full
How to reorient philanthropic investments for justice-oriented collective action and impact.
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Shifting Philanthropy to a Justice-Minded Approach
Brian Barnes and Dorian Burton, co-founders of TandemEd, discuss why philanthropy needs a new framework that grounds giving in “justice” rather than “charity.”
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The Essential Skills of Cross-Sector Leadership
Becoming an effective cross-sector leader requires a set of skills built around three broad areas: building teams, solving problems, and achieving impact.
Education
Equity Along the Paths to and Through College
How a New York community center is training college advisors, school counselors, volunteers, and members of community-based organizations to provide high-quality college advising.
Social Enterprise
Avoiding the Neoliberal Trap in Social Entrepreneurship
Seven lessons for walking the tight rope between social welfare and business.
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.
Civic Engagement
Breaking Barriers, Shifting Narratives, and Expanding Opportunity
By designing programs and policies to overcome longstanding systemic barriers in communities, we can expand opportunities for equity.
Civic Engagement
Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?
A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.