CHANGE Takes Time
The long, hard struggle to alter US policy on HIV/AIDS assistance shows that advocacy can deliver a real payoff.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Lessons in Forging Global Change
The successful 15-year campaign to eliminate mercury-based medical devices provides lessons for others creating large-scale social change.
The Paradox of Fair Trade
In 2011, a rift opened within the fair trade movement. What are the tensions that drove otherwise like-minded activists to form rival camps.
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Stories out of School
The movement to reform public schools through competition and testing is a "hoax," according to a one-time promoter of the movement.
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Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
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.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.