Leadership
Voluntarism and Unselfish Leadership
Selfless behavior of key individuals is critical to the development of local institutions for self-governance.
Tag: Community
Philanthropy & Funding
Citizen-Donors of the World
People who have moved tend to be more inclined to donate to non-local causes.
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.
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.