Economic Development
Community Development Needs a Quarterback
We need to take a new, more holistic approach to creating economic opportunity.
Tag: Community
Socially Responsible Business
Three Transformative Business Sustainability Trends
Emerging trends that can re-shape standard business practices.
Civil Society
Accelerating Civic Innovation Through “Strategic Doing”
A new approach to strategy is producing collaborations that are replicable, scalable, and sustainable.
Human Rights
Government Innovation in Child Welfare
The federal government is empowering states to improve child welfare systems using design-thinking and other innovative approaches.
Podcast
Nonprofits
Responsible and Successful Collaboration
How do we prevent collaboration from sweeping through nonprofits as a passing fad?
Collaboration
Cross-Sector Partnership Leads to Cross-Issue Impact
A grassroots soccer league transcends sport to effect community-wide change.
Government
Lessons in Mass Collaboration
Recent experience with government-convened hackathons has generated insights into the methods and instruments used to design effective mass collaboration efforts.
Business
Direct Public Offerings for Healthy Communities
Dysfunctional public and private capital markets benefit traders, speculators, and financiers more than companies and communities; direct public offerings provide a capital funding solution that benefits everyone.
Nonprofits
The Advent of Zen Marketing
Nonprofit communication strategies need to stop pushing and pulling, and be present.
Nonprofit Management
When the Rhythm Changes, So Must the Dance
Why careful listening is important to starting and scaling positive social change.