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When to Lead, Follow, and Let Go

The “servant’s heart” knows how roles must evolve in strong partnerships.

Communities Building Their Own Economies

Low-income communities have the power to shape their economic future, but only if they have access to tools that educate and empower.

Building an Intentional and Inclusive Civic Infrastructure

By Stephen Patrick & Sheri Brady 1

To address 21st-century problems, we need to build a civic infrastructure that serves all members of society, especially those on the margins.

Building Movements, Not Organizations

By Hildy Gottlieb 24

Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely.

Building relationships with grassroots organizations that advocate for human rights-based development takes time, but without investing in them, philanthropy is likely to stumble. The case of Haiti is instructive.

Big Picture

Using Social Incubation to Drive Local Innovation

By Gabriel Seidman & Teresa Chahine 1

A look at why and how social innovation can catalyze solutions for local problems from within the community, rather than by importing ideas from the outside.

Practical Advice

Creating Health in the 21st Century

By Leigh Carroll & Bridget B. Kelly 1

Five principles to guide how communities can develop new pathways to health, plus concrete steps toward contributing to a culture that values connections and relationships as much as treatments and health campaigns.