Seeking to Understand
An excerpt from Digital, Diverse, and Divided on building cultural intelligence to address polarization.
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The False Promise of Corporate Carbon Neutrality
“Net-zero” and “carbon-neutral” are prominent corporate climate pledges … that won’t come to anything.
Solving Social Media’s ‘Local Paradox’
Local social networks are often filled with just as much misinformation, racism, and toxicity as global platforms, with effects that can be even more severe.
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Transforming Our Housing System
Housing is a complex domain. Solutions that repair our broken housing system will require a collaborative approach to funding and long-term systems change.
Why Funders Should Go Meta
Spending money on research, or improving the research process, is one of the most powerful force multipliers that philanthropy can leverage.
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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.
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Plotting Impact Beyond Simple Metrics
For NGOs, impact comes in different forms and to track the cycles of social change work, we must think across the tangibility and the speed of emergence of change.
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.