From Stalemate to Solutions
By using a dynamic framework for authentic collaboration, we can increase the potential for problem-solving and create long-term, societal level change.
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Increasing Voter Turnout: What, If Anything, Can Be Done?
Lessons from the voter turnout series, a collaboration between the Hewlett Foundation and SSIR.
Planting the Seeds of Inclusion in Environmental Philanthropy
We need more and deeper commitments from funders to foster the next generation of environmental changemakers.
A Map to Effective Communications
How the California Heath Care Foundation sparked statewide change by “showing” rather than “telling” its data, making use of existing partnerships, and funding what works.
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An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare
A new book looks at how to deliver compassionate, connected patient care—and how that approach can create a competitive advantage.
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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.