Building Networks of Opportunity
A range of strategies and tools can help people in poor neighborhoods make the economic, political, and social connections they need for success.
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Malia, the Rise of the Gap Year, and Ethical International Engagement
International volunteerism often does more harm than good. A look at why the education sector needs to get serious about global development and human rights approaches.
Beyond Climate Change Platitudes
Why global leaders need to look beyond the status quo and recognize grassroots innovators as rightful peers.
The Changing Face of Collaboration
New research helps put collective impact in historical context and offers perspective on the challenge of sustainability.
A New Digital Currency for Sustainable Development
An innovative digital currency could help harness and unleash more private capital to alleviate poverty, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
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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.