Cities
Building the Inclusive City
Collaborative approaches to economic development are seeing results.
Tag: United States
Civic Engagement
Government Contractors as Civil Society?
The Congressional hearings on Planned Parenthood illustrate that dependence of civil society organizations on government contracts compromises their autonomy, turns them into pawns in political fights, and erodes their legitimacy.
Civic Engagement
After Citizens United: A Different Path Forward
Lessons from the regulation of lobbying by 501c3 organizations could provide a middle path between outright bans and unlimited spending during elections.
Environment
Cultivating Common Ground for a Healthy Environment
How engaging businesses and building a network of diverse stakeholders has drastically reduced the presence of invasive plants in California nurseries, while planting new seeds for others to sow.
Pay-For-Success is Working in Utah
For the first time, a US social impact bond has paid off for investors.
Business
The Role of Business in Collective Impact
A new report highlights how the business community’s support and expertise can greatly enhance the odds of success for collective impact efforts in education.
Leadership
A Network Approach to a “No Kill” Nation
Using a strategy that starts and ends with community-based collaboration, the animal welfare organization Maddie’s Fund and its partners are achieving the ambitious goal of a no-kill nation.
Energy
Bridging the Clean Energy Divide
Solar-plus-storage capability needs to reach vulnerable populations fast. Can we speed up disruptive technologies’ usual path to adoption?
Research Notes
New Orleans: The Hub of Water Management Innovation?
The 21st century needs to harness the power of water, and the battered coastal city of New Orleans may just have the goods to do it.
Government
Five Programmatic Lessons in Scaling Impact
A look at how a number of Social Innovation Fund subgrantees are successfully developing program strategies for greater growth and impact.