Labor of Love
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.
The Liberty Hill Foundation concentrates on helping community activists create lasting change in Los Angeles.
With hard data and soft skills, Communities in Schools fine-tunes its model to reduce dropout rates.
A South African foundation is leading the way in creating mobile-phone-based solutions for social change.
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
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.
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.
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.