Building an Ecosystem of Community-Led Public Health
COVID-19 vaccine efforts showed how successfully centering communities can overcome mistrust and access barriers.
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Digital Service Development Needs an Ethical Pause
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
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Advancing Climate Justice Priorities Over Profit-Led Research
Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.
Time to Put the Fossil-Fuel Industry Into Hospice
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
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How to Build More Resilient Networks
Social impact networks inevitably face moments of existential crisis. But networks can prepare for them by asking the right questions.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.