Frugal Innovation for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Crises
Organizations that reuse, repurpose, recombine, and rapidly innovate under resource and time pressures can help build a more inclusive and sustainable future.
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How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
Addressing the Critiques of Well-Being
Social change leaders can better advocate and find funding for well-being initiatives by creating a more authentic and deeper understanding of what it looks like and the difference it can make. Part of the Centered Self series.
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Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding
K. Sabeel Rahman, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Joelle Gamble discuss tying policies to programmatic decision-making and stakeholder participation; democratizing and expanding community control of public goods; and creating more responsive, accountable governments.
Fighting COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Black Communities With More Precise Data
By weaving together an unusual array of data into a simple measure of a community's vulnerability to COVID-19, health care practitioners can develop tailored interventions to help Black Americans, who disproportionately bear the burden of the pandemic.
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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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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 Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.