Networking a City
The Barr Fellows Network is changing the way work gets done in Boston’s large and entrenched social sector.
Urban Development Social innovations that improve the health of cities
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Gaming with a Purpose
Serious games tap into the same culture of online friendship from social networking to fuel peer involvement and encourage collaboration around real-world challenges.
Wanted: New Frameworks for Urban Housing
As global base of the pyramid urban evictions intensify, we need good quality, affordable housing that creates attractive profit opportunities.
Rio+20: Is a $513 Billion Down Payment Enough?
Advances in reducing poverty, environmental protection, and other global issues threaten the status quo—a report from Rio+20.
Changing the Social Sector’s Policy Pitch
The social sector has utterly failed to create a compelling pitch to the political sector about what we do.
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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.
Revitalizing Struggling American Cities
Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
How Good Is Your Evidence?
A new, and easier, scientific approach to determining the quality of evidence can help the social sector better assess—and therefore better address—social problems.
Reconnecting Youth in America’s Cities
A new report examines the relationship between place and race, and disconnected youth in the United States.
Outrun the Recession
The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.