Business
Reorient the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability programs have grown dramatically, but biases have crippled their effectiveness. We identify three critical steps for reform.
Tag: Environmental Sustainability
Social Enterprise
For Social Business to Become the Norm, We Need to Build a Social Business Infrastructure
For social businesses to survive and thrive, we must change the broader business ecosystem's legal structures, sustainability metrics, accountability systems, and funding opportunities.
Environment
The Complicity of Corporate Sustainability
Long hailed as a major piece of the climate solution, sustainable business practices have not only fallen short: They even enable the continued dominance of fossil fuel.
Philanthropy & Funding
Building Indigenous Power in Philanthropy
While allies and advisors are important in our work, it’s more important to support and develop our own Indigenous power, leadership, and decision-making.
Environment
Precision Fishing
SmartCatch deploys digital technology to help make the world’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable.
Economic Development
Doing Development Differently
International aid must use different approaches to address the massive systemic problems it seeks to solve.
Leadership
Voluntarism and Unselfish Leadership
Selfless behavior of key individuals is critical to the development of local institutions for self-governance.
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights as a Minimum Standard for Corporate Practice
By building strategic alliances with investors and shareholders, Indigenous Peoples are proactively protecting their rights by urging corporate respect of those rights in routine operations.
Leadership
Indigenous Feminism Is Our Culture
A call to bring back matriarchy in Indigenous communities to rebuild and decolonize the foundation of Native community life.
Impact Investing
Bridging the Divide Between Impact Investing and Native America
Indigenous intermediaries are crucial to overcoming asymmetries between impact investors and Native America through the building of relationships of trust, creation of an ecosystem for impact investing in Indigenous communities, and performance of the due diligence investors need to manage risk.