Using Data to Change Gun Policy
The Joyce Foundation is finding success with gun violence prevention through policy efforts, using research that sheds light on causes and trends.
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Prepare to Update Your Theory of Change
The new book Scarcity provides critical insights for designing better anti-poverty programs, but not for allocating scarce philanthropic resources.
People, Planet, Profit ... Religion?
How legal challenges to the contraceptive mandate implicate social enterprise.
Why Silence Is Not Enough
Business schools are failing to promote higher morals.
Making Conservation Finance Investable
Conservation finance is an undeveloped investment opportunity that offers the potential to conserve vital ecosystems while also providing a financial return.
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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.