Law Without Lawyers
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Gender pay equity is higher in countries where women's involvement in advocacy and organizing efforts is more robust.
Evaluating efforts to promote shifts in policy requires methods that are at once rigorous and flexible.
How legal challenges to the contraceptive mandate implicate social enterprise.
An education organization in Pittsburgh transitions from watchdog to community engagement as its mission evolves.
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
It’s time for activists and organizations to adopt a more strategic approach to public interest communications.
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.