Human Rights
Protecting the Heart of Environmental Civil Society
Three strategies for ensuring the safety and security of people defending their environment and human rights around the world.
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Impact Investing
Impact Investing in Victorian England? The Case of Model Dwellings Companies
What we can learn today from an early approach to improving social conditions through investment.
Environment
From Eats to Electricity
A British entrepreneur hopes that by transforming food waste into biogas, his plant can help a community gain a sense of local environmental stewardship.
Scaling
The Messy Middle: Managing the Challenges of Scale-up
Five lessons on scaling educational technology for the most vulnerable children.
Human Rights
A Journal for Refugees
An Oxford project provides a place where migrants forced to flee their homes can publish their work.
Social Enterprise
Purpose Versus Popularity
In working with stigmatized groups, an organization must manage the risk that it may experience stigma as well.
Collaboration
When Straight-Line Planning Doesn’t Work
How network theory challenges conventional planning strategies and points toward a more flexible, collaborative approach to fundraising.
Social Enterprise
Reverse the Brain Drain
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.
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Arts & Culture
Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music
How a Venezuelan model of music education is bringing a sense of inclusion to children in immigrant communities in Denmark—and around the world.