Advocacy
From Fixers to Builders
Four narrative shifts proven to get people of all parties to support progressive goals without compromising anyone’s values.
Tag: Social Change
Leadership
The Strategic Art of Ambiguity
When the deck is stacked against change, ambiguous actions can change the game.
Advocacy
What’s Your Start Agenda?
Effective change efforts, whether activist movements or social enterprises, must focus beyond just the problem or symptom they want to eliminate.
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Technology
Living on Social Networks
An excerpt from The Digital Double Bind on the digital revolution in the Global South
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Civic Engagement
How Organizing Professionalizes
An excerpt from Occupation: Organizer on the birth of the community organizing model
Review
Civic Engagement
Exiting the Fast Lane
Social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer argues for slowness as the most effective method for creating lasting social change.
Philanthropy & Funding
Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs
If funders want “less talk and more walk” in the field of systems change, it’s time they started funding small, locally led organizations.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy Needs to Focus on “Who,” Not Just “How”
When we rethink the fundamentals of philanthropy, we unlock its potential to create lasting, positive social change.
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Business
Nothing Without Us
An excerpt from Change for Good on how businesses can shift from social responsibility to social change.
Social Enterprise
Can Social Innovation Rise to Meet the Moment?
In a world shaped by the twin advances of populism and authoritarianism, social innovation reminds us that all things are still possible.