Organizational Development
Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable
Using a social justice framework for systems change planning can help leaders work out the root causes of social problems and create concrete strategies to solve them.
Tag: Policy Reform
Philanthropy & Funding
Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Social Sector Needs a Meta Movement
By creating a network of grassroots movements and calling out connections across issues, the social sector can drive demand for solutions and spur policy makers to act.
Health
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
Leadership
We Need to Reimagine the Modern Think Tank
Think tanks can only help pave the path toward a more inclusive, just, and equal country if we modernize our concept of expertise, re-think who gets to drive policy change, and re-imagine how policy is developed.
Advocacy
Bridging Faith and Social Justice Across Generations
How an unlikely alliance between Catholic nuns and young social activists benefits both groups.
Review
Health
Equitable Public Health
In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
Video
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Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding
K. Sabeel Rahman, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Joelle Gamble discuss tying policies to programmatic decision-making and stakeholder participation; democratizing and expanding community control of public goods; and creating more responsive, accountable governments.
Environment
Dispatch From 2030: What a Global Pandemic Taught Us About Tackling Climate Change
A look back from 2030 reveals how ambitious industrial policies, high-quality data, and courageous leadership saved us from an affliction worse than COVID-19. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Excerpt
Civic Engagement
Civic Power
An excerpt from a new book on rebuilding American democracy in an era of crisis.