Ownership and Equity
SSIR’s new issue delves into ownership in both the straightforward and metaphorical senses and how the idea grounds a community and provides a source of systemic change.
Foundations New and innovative ideas for leaders of foundations
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A Reckoning for the Pro-Democracy Community
In the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election, four recommendations for leaders dedicated to reconstituting and strengthening democracy in the United States.
Beyond the Broadcasting Model
Today’s communications landscape demands that social sector organizations move away from a 20th-century broadcasting approach and toward dialogue, relationship-building, and fostering community.
Communication in a New Era of Social Change
This essay series, presented in partnership with The Communications Network, will share stories, strategies, and lessons from forward-thinking foundations and nonprofits that have begun evolving the way they think and do communications.
CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.
A budding success story in East Texas offers lessons for other underserved rural regions, philanthropies interested in rural revitalization, and CDFIs pursuing pathways to better engage and serve rural communities.
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What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Measuring Social Value
Too many people believe social value is objective, fixed, and stable, when in fact it is subjective, malleable, and variable.
What Everyone Can Learn From Leaders of Color
These leaders’ assets go beyond experiences of oppression or marginalization to include the connection, meaning, and joy they can draw on from their respective cultures and communities.
Working Wikily
A few nonprofits are using social media to fundamentally change the way they work and increase their social impact.
What the Heck Does ‘Equity’ Mean?
A clear definition of equity would seem paramount to galvanizing philanthropy into action around this increasingly used term—but the field is only beginning to explore what it really means.