Foundations
Focusing on Advocacy
The time is now for foundations, large and small, to engage in public policy.
Tag: Community
Technology & Design
Playing Games and Getting Results
A game development initiative brings individuals together to achieve real-world social change.
Nonprofits
Build Trust with Your Community
Building trust with your constituents is the closest you can find to a silver bullet for fundraising. But how do you build trust with constituents?
Nonprofit Management
Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results
Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.
Foundations
Community Foundation Speaks Out Against Government Funding Cuts to Nonprofits
One foundation leader is demonstrating what a community foundation can do to defend nonprofits in their area from state budget cuts.
Podcast
Global Issues
Safe Water in Communities
A Single Drop for Safe Water Executive Director Kevin Lee, a 2010 Tech Award winner, describes ASDSW's work in the Philippines and beyond.
Civil Society
Online Gaming Is the New Bowling League
A recent study showed that online game communities provide access to social capital.
Review
Civil Society
People Power
Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
Review
Civil Society
One Nation Under Gods
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell
Essentials of Social Innovation
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.