Ending Teacher Shortages with Network Mapping
A project to end teacher shortages in the United States is demonstrating how thinking about social systems as networks can help us prioritize the most effective strategies.
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Respecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as Renewable Energy Grows
Addressing climate change requires that we transition quickly to renewable energy while grounding our efforts in human rights.
Tackling Digital Security Across Civil Society
Four steps civil society organizations and their funders can take to begin addressing digital risk.
Reframing Sexual Violence: From #MeToo to Time’s Up
In the shift from #MeToo to Time’s Up, movement leaders are strategically framing sexual violence as a social and cultural problem, rather than an individual problem. Doing so helps people think about the broad range of actions we can take to systemically prevent sexual violence.
Early, Patient, Nimble Philanthropy Can Make or Break Public-Private Partnerships
A look at how private long-term investment can help spur public engagement—and lead to policy change and impact—in environmental conservation and beyond.
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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.