To realize the full value of human services community-based organizations, we need to change both the narrative around what they do and the structures for funding them, stressing shared values and a commitment to outcomes.
By embracing community-based participatory research and other equity approaches to data, philanthropy can change the game, revitalize research and communities, and realize greater impact.
In landscapes where people and natural systems co-exist and intermingle, conservationists must go beyond protection and work to develop community-level incentives for wildlife conservation through sustainable and locally managed use.
Renovating Democracy explores how the digital revolution has irrevocably altered how we engage with participatory democracy and with how democracy works for us.
The Ecosystem Services Market will enable farmers to use improvements in soil health—the key to water conservation and soil carbon sequestration—to generate ecosystem-service credits that they will be able to sell. A What's Next article from the Winter 2020 issue.
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.
