Social Issues
Accountability: The Golden Opportunity in Impact Investing
Why investors need to integrate rights and accountability into development finance, and how they can begin.
Tag: Ethics
Advocacy
Advocating an End to the Death Penalty
The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all.
Philanthropy & Funding
Supporting a Truly Participant-Centered Approach to Development
Resistance to unconditional cash transfers may be less about their effectiveness and applicability as a participant-focused programmatic strategy, and more about the development community’s vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
Advocacy
Funding Research for Advocacy
How a commitment to effective messaging research helped reframe the debate around freedom to marry and win greater support.
Civic Engagement
The Algorithms of Fear
Many media companies are using algorithms this US election year that are having the effect of accentuating people’s differences and stoking their fears. Is it time for social innovators to build new tools that help promote a more tempered, consensus-based discourse?
Education
Malia, the Rise of the Gap Year, and Ethical International Engagement
International volunteerism often does more harm than good. A look at why the education sector needs to get serious about global development and human rights approaches.
Collaboration
How Research Universities Can Help the Refugee Crisis
Academic-humanitarian collaborations that mobilize rigorous scientific research can improve the effectiveness of aid efforts.
Health
Time for Global Action on Mental Health
For years, the international aid community has stigmatized, mistreated, or simply ignored the millions of people who suffer from mental illness. We need a new approach.
Business
Fixing the Freest Marketplace Money Can Buy
Fourteen ways to create a marketplace that expresses the wishes and best interests of the many, not the few.
Organizational Development
A Defense of Story
Stories can be overly simple, even deceptive. But more often than not, they help surface and illuminate truth, and embracing their complexity offers deep reward.