Luther Ragin, Jr., Vice President of Investments for The F.B. Heron Foundation, explains how the mission-related investment approach can harness a foundation's financial power to maximize its social return. From the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford.
Does good self-esteem spell success?
From the archives: American charity shortchanges the poor, and public policy is partly to blame.
In Morocco, there are 33,000 NGOs, many of which are engaged in a massive struggle to bring a civil society to life.
Though rarely discussed in America, the subtle differences between social classes lead to major misunderstandings in the classroom, the workplace, and in many nonprofit settings.
Laws and programs designed to benefit vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or people of color, often end up benefiting all of society.
It’s time for activists and organizations to adopt a more strategic approach to public interest communications.
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
In adopting data-driven practices, leaders must design and implement programs in ways that engage community members directly in the work of social change.
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.
