Leadership
Voluntarism and Unselfish Leadership
Selfless behavior of key individuals is critical to the development of local institutions for self-governance.
Tag: Grassroots Activism
Civic Engagement
What Kinds of Protests Work?
Protest actions seen as extreme and highly disruptive diminish popular support.
Business
Boycotts and Corporate Boards
Social movement boycotts increase board turnover, especially when board members are sympathetic to the cause at issue.
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights as a Minimum Standard for Corporate Practice
By building strategic alliances with investors and shareholders, Indigenous Peoples are proactively protecting their rights by urging corporate respect of those rights in routine operations.
Philanthropy & Funding
Building Indigenous Power and Investing in Indigenous Self-Determination
To solve the most pressing issues for Indigenous communities—and for the world at large—power and autonomy must be given to Indigenous people themselves.
Philanthropy & Funding
Hyperlocal Giving to Black-Led Nonprofits Cannot Simply Be a Trend
Not only do Black-led nonprofits need lasting and long-term support, but philanthropy needs to wrestle with its past failures to invest in the very communities we claim to be working for.
Civic Engagement
Protests, Violence, and Political Change
The Black protests of the US civil rights era influenced the national political agenda via the media coverage they received.
Education
Open-Source Learning for 2020 and Beyond
How Middlebury’s culture of collaborative, student-centric innovation lead to Energy2028, the phaseout of fossil fuel investments in the college endowment. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Advocacy
Nonprofit Advocacy and Democracy
Charitable organizations have become political intermediaries for corporations and other powerful interests. A research article in the Summer 2020 issue.
sponsored
Invading the Darkness of Child Sex Trafficking
How Shared Hope International uses digital tools and meaningful grassroots experiences to activate support.