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How Collaboratives in India Partner With Government to Support Systems Change
These four learnings showcase the strengths of collaboratives—and can help others increase the odds of successful government partnerships.
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Political Participation Across Partisan Divides
A teachers’ union brings together members from opposed political sides by focusing on community interests.
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The Power of Arts Education to Build Community
How does a poverty-fighting organization like Henry Street Settlement in New York City use arts education to strengthen the community and “serve the whole person” as its president and CEO puts it? How can donors best support these programs? David Garza of Henry Street Settlement, Kevin Greaney of PhilARThropy, and Eric Joranson of DAFGiving360 join SSIR editor Barbara Wheeler-Bride to discuss the importance of arts education and how donors can sustain these programs over time. A sponsored podcast developed with the support of DAFgiving360
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The rise of AI-powered social services will mean walking a difficult tightrope between democratizing access to resources and depleting access to social connection.
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Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design
Both human-centered and systems-thinking methods fit within an effective design approach, and can work in conjunction to address social challenges.
A Better Education for All During—and After—the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and its partners shows how to help children learn amid erratic access to schools during a pandemic, and how those solutions may make progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring a quality education for all by 2030.
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.