A Man of His Time
The founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute pursues an unfinished agenda.
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Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Transformative Scenario Planning: Working Together to Change the Future
Transformative Scenario Planning explains a five-step process for dealing with complicated situations that cannot be changed in a straightforward manner.
What Are We Doing About Gun Violence?
Part one of a seven-part series of interviews with and commentary by leaders working to reduce gun violence in the United States.
Filling the Gap in Media Funding
Foundations are increasing their media-related grantmaking—but they need to do more.
Worth the Risk: Supporting the Art of Great Teaching
How collaborative classroom evaluation is producing measures teachers can trust.
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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.