Building Transparency Momentum
A local initiative offers lessons on how to use collaboration, experimentation, and forward-thinking to create a culture of innovation.
Cities Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities
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Interrupting the Transmission of Violence
Cure Violence Founder Dr. Gary Slutkin talks about the health approach to reducing violence.
Moving Everyday Gun Violence into View
Mayor Michael Nutter talks about Cities United and preventing gun violence in cities across the United States through cross-sector partnerships.
Helping Cities Remain Strong
A $100 million foundation initiative aims to foster urban resilience in the face of disaster.
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Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
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Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
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.
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
To End Homelessness, the Energy of Money Must Change
How government and philanthropy can unlock the billions needed to shelter America’s unhoused