Economic Development
Facts Over Factions
How technology and data can form the basis for common-sense, bi-partisan policy reforms amid new uncertainties.
How technology and data can form the basis for common-sense, bi-partisan policy reforms amid new uncertainties.
As funders, providers, and advocates pivot to face a dramatically different funding and political environment, some lessons from history may be instructive.
With the right creative approach and the help of supporter networks, nonprofits can leverage web video to engage thousands, even millions, of people on a shoestring budget.
The social sector must better support entrepreneurs and professionals who have migrated from the developing world, and who want to positively influence social change in their countries of origin.
Around the world, people want more say in what questions candidates need to answer during presidential debates.
A model of social entrepreneurship focused on market-based solutions and profit is threatening to crowd out more collaborative approaches.
A recent get-out-the-vote experiment shows that turnout in primaries can be cost-effectively enlarged and broadened by targeting voters who only vote in general elections and who are often ignored by campaigns.
Building on a quarter century of get-out-the-vote efforts, MTV’s 2016 “Elect This” campaign will encourage young people to vote in support of the polices that inspire them, rather than the political system that doesn’t.
Lessons from the regulation of lobbying by 501c3 organizations could provide a middle path between outright bans and unlimited spending during elections.