Scaling
Strategy: Go Big or Go… Oh, Just Go Big
Four steps to impact at a scale that really matters.
Tag: Funding
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How Funders Can Help Fill Critical Gaps in Technology for Social Good
Why we need cross-sector physical, social, and digital assets to undergird next-gen technologies and how philanthropy can help fuel an equitable innovation ecosystem.
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Focusing Government Service Delivery on a New North Star
By investing in a talent pipeline of diverse public interest technologists, government and philanthropy can advance equity, expand opportunity, and make democracy work for the people.
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A Learning Agenda for Collective Impact
Collective impact initiatives have contributed to systems changes and improved the lives of many living in our communities. In the next decade, they must focus on equity, shifting imbalances of power, sustainability, and greater collaboration across initiatives to achieve even more lasting social change.
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Embracing Collective Impact at United Way
Four leaders of United Ways across the United States discuss shifting their roles from funders to true partners in collective impact efforts.
Cities
Will Relief Funding Help Those Who Need It Most?
As state and local governments in the United States start spending the largest infusion of direct federal funding in history, they should make sure they aren’t investing in systems that increase inequity.
Health
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Urban and Rural Divide
Despite the poverty rate being significantly higher in rural America, philanthropists continue to pour money into urban areas.
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.