Collaboration
Powerful, Not Powerless: Emerging Approaches to Massive Action
Mass mobilization to combat authoritarianism dates back millennia. New methods can harness the power of the people and advance causes for justice.
Tag: Social Movements
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.
Advocacy
Building Solidarity for Transformative Social Change
A conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor about building cohesion across differences and organizing transformative social movements.
Leadership
A Social Movement Requires Momentum
New strategies and mindsets for fueling local leaders and solutions.
Philanthropy & Funding
Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Excerpt
Civic Engagement
Beyond Numbers
An excerpt from Prisms of the People on how collective action generates real, durable power.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Social Sector Needs a Meta Movement
By creating a network of grassroots movements and calling out connections across issues, the social sector can drive demand for solutions and spur policy makers to act.
Excerpt
Technology
How Technology Shapes Social Movements
In an excerpt from The Future of Change, Ray Brescia analyzes how VAWA proponents used digital platforms to broaden their message and support.
Advocacy
Aspirational Communication
Organizations must connect their causes to the personal aspirations of their audiences to transform public attitudes. A feature story from the Winter 2020 issue.
sponsored
Realizing Democracy
As long as it is more profitable to rig the rules than play by them, our better angels are unlikely to thrive. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.