Philanthropy & Funding
Shifting Power to Communities in Grant Funding
To truly advance racial justice, funders must share decision-making power over who receives capital with the communities they hope to serve.
Tag: Community
Philanthropy & Funding
Building a Trust-Based Philanthropy to Shift Power Back to Communities
To realize the deep systemic change that America is demanding, philanthropy must reorganize to build and demonstrate a trust-based culture, invest in community leadership capacity-building, and open up decision-making and information-sharing structures.
Education
School Districts Must Embrace Social Responsibility
Schools must help liberate their students and their families from social injustice and support the revitalization and sustainability of their communities and environment.
Economic Development
Unveiling the Informal Economy
Stereotypes cloud our perception of the informal economy, but we have much to learn from the entrepreneurship that unfolds there.
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Leadership
Cultivating Serendipity
A new book prescribes an active approach to managing uncertainty and creating positive outcomes in a fast-changing world.
Leadership
Effective Change Requires Proximate Leaders
Leaders who arise from the communities and issues they serve have the experience, relationships, data, and knowledge that are essential for developing solutions with measurable and sustainable impact.
Education
How Higher Education Can Support Local Ecosystems of Innovation
Supporting innovation should not be a top-down approach premised on straitjacketing program designs.
Education
Whose Knowledge Is It?
Community-centered approaches to research in practice at Simon Fraser University. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Food
A Table for All
Food for Soul’s refettorios are feeding the poor, finding a solution to food waste, and building community spirit.
Social Services
Creating Collaborative Solutions With Communities Using ‘Gifts Explosion’ and ‘See It My Way’
Social service agencies have too often excluded the communities they aim to help from informing and strengthening the programs purportedly designed for them. Here are two techniques for using a person-centered model that offers a better way to craft truly collaborative solutions.