Environment
Connecting Climate Resilience to the Bottom Line
The time is ripe for companies to look beyond quarterly earnings and depreciation schedules, and into frameworks and strategies that will build long-term resilience.
Tag: United States
Civic Engagement
Lessons from East Africa on Effective Community Organizing
How a revitalized sense of civic duty can go beyond resistance and make real progress.
Civic Engagement
The Moment for Participatory Democracy
Three civic engagement models that can help bring the voices of everyday citizens into public life.
Scaling
Three Questions That Transformed a Movement
Achieving marriage equality in the United States took time, tough questions, and coordinated efforts across politics, strategy, and messaging.
Economic Development
Choosing Nurture, Not Nature, to Improve Financial Decision-Making in America
Behavioral insights can inform low-cost, low-touch strategies for re-designing financial services that promote consumer well-being.
Foundations
Systems Change in a Polarized Country
A growing number of US foundations are adopting practices based on systems change to achieve their goals in the current political environment.
Foundations
Now Is the Time for Foundations to Invest for Mission and Impact
The Mission Possible series is a call to action for philanthropy to fully embrace impact investing as an essential tool to drive meaningful social and environmental change.
Advocacy
How Progressive Nonprofits Can Navigate Conservative GOP Washington
Ten practical strategies to open doors on Capitol Hill.
Impact Investing
Strengthening the Impact Investing Movement
Segmenting the field to better align expectations of risk, returns, and impact; increasing the rate of adoption with important stakeholders; and stepping up work in the United States—a look at Omidyar Network’s priorities in advancing the movement.
Impact Investing
Increasing Impact: People and Place at the Center
For impact investing to realize its true potential, we must change the mindset and narrative related to there being a “lack of pipeline” in underserved communities—rural and urban—to a perspective that people in communities create the environments in which outside investments can thrive.