Slowly Strangling Civil Society
How donor funding distorts civil society goals and priorities.
How donor funding distorts civil society goals and priorities.
New research reveals a large gap between the world of organized philanthropy and today’s world of social action.
Cheap and Clean explores how, more than anything else, beliefs about the costs and environmental harms associated with certain fuels drive opinions about energy and climate change policy.
Companies with a high profile are more likely to become the focus of anti-sweatshop protests.
Social connections help drive protest mobilization—as long as those connections aren't too close.
Nonprofits benefit when they carefully plan an extended role for founders who step down. Open access to this article is made possible by The Bridgespan Group.
From the archives: American charity shortchanges the poor, and public policy is partly to blame.
Lending circles, self-help groups, and study circles are among the oldest and most effective tools for creating personal and social change.
Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets a way for consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?
A new report examines the relationship between place and race, and disconnected youth in the United States.