Civic Engagement
Protests, Violence, and Political Change
The Black protests of the US civil rights era influenced the national political agenda via the media coverage they received.
Tag: Voting
Foundations
How Corporate Philanthropy Buys Influence
Companies use charitable giving to disguise political lobbying.
Excerpt
Civic Engagement
Building a New Civic Culture
A new excerpt from Engaged guides us to create a more active citizenship and democracy.
Civic Engagement
SSIR Guide to Voting, Civic Engagement, and Repairing Democracy
Articles on getting voters to the polls and fixing American democracy ahead of a presidential election that is shaping up to be one of the most contentious ever.
Advocacy
Nonprofit Advocacy and Democracy
Charitable organizations have become political intermediaries for corporations and other powerful interests. A research article in the Summer 2020 issue.
Review
Technology
The Technology Treadmill
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson’s Ingenious applies concepts and metaphors from evolutionary biology to explain the impact of technological innovation on human life. A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
sponsored
Against Nostalgia
Three takeaways to establish the structural and institutional guardrails necessary to creating a serious, concerted, and holistic effort to address issues of power and inequality across civil society, government, and the economy. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
Social Services
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
Civic Engagement
Funders Can Bolster Democracy by Supporting Census Tech
Local governments and philanthropy are missing out on one of the biggest opportunities to positively affect the census: supporting the application of modern technology to increase the chances of a more complete count.
Advocacy
The Secret to Better Storytelling for Social Change: Better Partnerships
No single organization or individual can pull off an effective storytelling campaign alone. Reaping the benefits of storytelling requires that we build better partnerships between three important players.