Business
Why Sustainable Investment Means Investing in Advocacy
Combining traditional impact investment approaches with investment in advocacy is the only way businesses and investors can fuel meaningful social and environmental progress.
Solutions
Essentials of Social Innovation
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.
Philanthropy & Funding
Transformative Philanthropy for Racial Justice
We created the Democracy Frontlines Fund to enable experienced anti-racist organizers to do their crucial work. They taught us how to do philanthropy better.
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Building Public Trust Through Collaborative Governance
For a more equitable, inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy, we must invest substantive, resourced, and long-term decision-making power in the public.
Excerpt
Purpose-Built Platforms
An excerpt from The Tech That Comes Next on the technology needed to create a more inclusive, equitable world.
Reading List: Power Dynamics at Play in Social Change
Ahead of the 2022 Frontiers of Social Innovation conference, “Power at Play in Social Change,” a collection of articles exploring shifts in philanthropy, place-based social change, public interest technology, and more.
Podcast
Crisis and Change: Conversations With Leaders— Navigating the Pandemic
In the final episode of this special series, Dr. Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, share how they’re redefining the role of philanthropy in addressing public health crises and preparing for future pandemics. Produced in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts.
How to Build Nonprofit Talent Systems During Times of Rapid Growth
Four data-driven, inclusive human resource systems that can help quickly scaling nonprofits maintain their efficiency, values, and performance.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
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.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
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.