Philanthropy & Funding
On the Brink—Providers Under Pressure
The collapse of New York’s largest nonprofit human services agency is an urgent reminder of the need for funding reform.
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Collaboration
On a Mission
Ray Chambers, co-founder of the nonprofit Malaria No More, talks about his experience raising malaria awareness through partnerships and the need for effective collaboration.
Review
Civic Engagement
The People’s Budget
Participatory budgeting, which enables citizens to decide how to spend public funds, is building a more empowering model of democracy.
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Cities
Boulevards and Beltlines
How citizens can push back against urban sprawl and create vibrant, interconnected communities.
Economic Development
Building Networks of Opportunity
A range of strategies and tools can help people in poor neighborhoods make the economic, political, and social connections they need for success.
Environment
Beyond Climate Change Platitudes
Why global leaders need to look beyond the status quo and recognize grassroots innovators as rightful peers.
Advocacy
Crowdsourcing the Future of a Social Movement
How an innovative campaign lifted up the voices of people across the United States to help inform movement leaders about the hopes, fears, and ideas of the LGBTQ community.
Health
Time for Global Action on Mental Health
For years, the international aid community has stigmatized, mistreated, or simply ignored the millions of people who suffer from mental illness. We need a new approach.
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Civic Engagement
Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
In Democratic by Design, Gabriel Metcalf looks at how small-scale, self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business can scale up to effect widespread social change.
Foundations
Making Good Ideas Go Viral
A less-traveled path to education reform: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is catalyzing three social forces to create an epidemic of best practice.