Building an Intentional and Inclusive Civic Infrastructure
To address 21st-century problems, we need to build a civic infrastructure that serves all members of society, especially those on the margins.
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Renewable Energy Brings Opportunity for All
More than a billion people worldwide still lack electricity and the opportunity it can bring. But access is now more possible than ever.
Building Movements, Not Organizations
Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely.
Skill-Building Through Business Education
Models that tie pedagogy to business have the potential to provide revenue to help fund education and practical business exposure for students.
Why the Social Sector Needs the Scientific Method
A flawed study on deworming children—and new studies that expose its errors—reveal why activists and philanthropists alike need safeguards.
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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.