Civic Engagement
Securing Trust in People and Place
Nonprofits seeking to improve communities face the hard work of building trust. Success requires prioritizing the people you work with and proceeding patiently.
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Civic Engagement
A Path Toward Depolarization
The emerging discipline of public interest communications offers solutions to our deeply polarized and divided world. | Open access to this article is made possible by the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Moving Beyond Overhead
Charities can find better ways to communicate their spending priorities than a myopic focus on administrative costs displayed in simplistic pie charts.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Compounding Unearned Advantage
An excerpt from Rich White Men on the life-changing impact of inherited privilege
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Building Youth Power
Funding youth organizing groups can engage and empower young people through transformative political socialization.
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Human Rights
Poverty Persists Because of Us
In Poverty, by America, sociologist Matthew Desmond argues that America’s welfare state doesn’t help those who need it the most.
Civic Engagement
To Save Democracy, Fund Organizing
Philanthropies concerned with toxic polarization and growing political extremism should invest in community organizing.
Education
Anchoring Higher Education in the Community
At College Unbound, we aim to empower adult learners to transform their families, communities, and workplaces. We also aspire to transform higher education.
Environment
Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power
Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.
Social Services
Discipline, Punish, and Palliate
Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.