Follow the Money
MapLight, a nonprofit that crunches data to determine the influence of money in politics, aims to make government more accountable.
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Info Technology and Sustainable Development
Michael Jones, Google’s chief technology advocate, discusses how connection technologies are now supporting sustainable development.
Migration and Human Rights
A look at policy reform in Argentina and implications for the United States.
Let’s Talk About Water
Solving our global water and sanitation issues in a post-2015 world requires more than simply counting beneficiaries.
The Value of Informal Enterprise
Informal enterprise is expanding rapidly, raising questions about what we mean when we say “the” economy and how we can better engage with it.
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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.