Keeping Kids in School
With hard data and soft skills, Communities in Schools fine-tunes its model to reduce dropout rates.
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Housing the Homeless
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.
A New Spin on Student Loans
Social Finance Inc. offers a network-based alternative to government-sponsored student loan programs.
Contagious Health
A community-based program in rural Kentucky uses face-to-face social networks to promote wellness.
The Fight Against Human Trafficking
Health care communites can help.
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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.