Learning From the Climate-Mental Health Convergence
The climate movement has lessons for all social impact practitioners working to create a more just and healthy world.
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Lessons From Covax
Borderless threats require international cooperation and coordination, as well as attention to the needs of global majority countries.
Further Reflections on Fashion’s Circularity Reckoning
Ken Pucker responds to his readers’ critiques of his Up for Debate article “A Circle That Isn’t Easily Squared” and reiterates his call for a systemic shift in how the fashion industry does business.
Response: Increasing Environmental and Social Sustainability at the Same Time
The fashion industry could decrease its environmental impact by shifting its sources of revenue from material and energy to labor.
Response: Contextualizing the Colonial Climate Crisis in Black and Indigenous Thought
Currently, every predominant aspect of sustainability discourse and practice is white-centered. It’s time to change that.
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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.