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People Power
Powerful organization, rather than efficient mobilization, is the way to re-center people in our political life. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
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Artists in Local Government
Current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists’ narrowly defined art projects. A Viewpoint from the Winter 2020 issue.
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Revitalizing People-Based Government
Recent research documents only a weak electoral connection between state legislators and their voters. It's time to break the cycle and restore political power to ordinary citizens over entrenched minorities. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
Brilliant Rule-Breakers
Michela Musto's research scrutinized two classroom dynamics: how educators—mostly white college-educated women—enforced rules or responded to boys breaking them; and how educators disciplined white, Asian-American, and Latino boys differently. A Research article from the Winter 2020 issue.
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Representing the People
Community organizations nationwide are pushing prosecutors to embrace a new criminal justice reform agenda and collaborating with attorneys general to protect working people. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
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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.