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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.
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
Combining traditional impact investment approaches with investment in advocacy is the only way businesses and investors can fuel meaningful social and environmental progress.
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.
What’s the best way for small individual investors to generate returns and deliver impact? (Spoiler: It’s probably not an ESG fund.)
Philanthropy has a huge opportunity—and responsibility—to build a culture of repair both inside and outside their organizations.
Going beyond social change Mad Libs means going deep with systems, movements, and real human emotions.
Outsourcing and contract employment models have allowed the tech industry to obscure its terrible labor practices for years. A surging movement of these workers has had enough.
An excerpt from Breaking Free on the freedom practice of individual and collective movement
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.
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
It’s time for activists and organizations to adopt a more strategic approach to public interest communications.
Since 1970, more than 200,000 nonprofits have opened in the U.S., but only 144 have reached $50 million in annual revenue. They got big by doing two things: They raised the bulk of their money from a single type of funder. And just as importantly, these nonprofits created professional organizations that were tailored to the needs of their primary funding sources.