Decades of Deadlock: Using Network Principles to Break Through

By Marty Kooistra 1

When not being able to figure out who “won” means everyone did.

Communities Building Their Own Economies

By Steve Dubb 3

Low-income communities have the power to shape their economic future, but only if they have access to tools that educate and empower.

Global Issues

Building an Intentional and Inclusive Civic Infrastructure

By Stephen Patrick & Sheri Brady 1

To address 21st-century problems, we need to build a civic infrastructure that serves all members of society, especially those on the margins.

Building Movements, Not Organizations

By Hildy Gottlieb 24

Creating a healthy, humane world will require more than new organizational designs. It will take rethinking the nature of organizations entirely.

Big and Fast Is Not Better

By Daniel Moss 1

Building relationships with grassroots organizations that advocate for human rights-based development takes time, but without investing in them, philanthropy is likely to stumble. The case of Haiti is instructive.

Practical Advice

Creating Health in the 21st Century

By Leigh Carroll & Bridget B. Kelly 1

Five principles to guide how communities can develop new pathways to health, plus concrete steps toward contributing to a culture that values connections and relationships as much as treatments and health campaigns.

Communities Can Set the Course for Lasting Change

By Ann Austin 2

Communities have the resources to address the problems they face; they just need to approach those problems in a different way.