Impact Investing
Democratizing Capital
New laws enabling ordinary people to become equity investors have the potential to uplift marginalized communities, if the new market creates the infrastructure to include them.
Tag: Democracy
Social Services
The Work of Inclusion in an Emergency Department
Frontline professionals are obligated to serve everyone who comes through their doors. Researchers investigate how they balance risk, moral emotions, and fear during a global health emergency.
Civic Engagement
Building Power for an Inclusive, Multiracial Democracy
Five things to know about the US Latinx electorate, and how continued community organizing and movement building can shift America toward a more inclusive democracy.
Technology
Recap of 2021 Data on Purpose Conference
A recap of this year's Data on Purpose conference on digital solutions to problems of democracy and civil society.
Health
The Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health
Rick Doblin launched the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in 1986 to research and advocate for the use of LSD, magic mushrooms, and Ecstasy to treat mental illness. After more than three decades of labor, he has found his moment.
Collaboration
Civic Mobilization Infrastructure in an Age of Existential Threats
Brazilian civil society worked together to win basic income for the poor. Its success illustrates how organizations must interlock to secure rights and push for social change.
Civic Engagement
What Kinds of Protests Work?
Protest actions seen as extreme and highly disruptive diminish popular support.
Design Thinking
SSIR Online, Spring 2021 Issue
Links to all of SSIR's online-only articles published the past three months, with editors' notes about standout pieces on design thinking, foundation spending, and rebuilding US democracy.
Civic Engagement
SSIR Guide to Overcoming Polarization
After pro-Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, how will the United States address many of the issues that underlie the chaos, particularly extreme polarization? This roundup of articles explores ways to take on the unprecedented divides in America.
Government
How Can Philanthropy Help Rehabilitate US Democracy?
Those with wealth and privilege are uniquely positioned to support the building and reimagining of our tattered and under-resourced democracy-preserving institutions.