The Critical Role of Questions in Building Resilient Democracies
Asking questions in new and participatory ways can complement advancements in data science and AI while enabling more inclusive and more adaptive democracies.
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Upgrading the Plumbing of the International Aid System
Multilateral development banks and humanitarian non-governmental organizations have mostly ignored each other while working to improve lives. But with poverty increasingly concentrated in conflict-affected countries, changes are needed to provide a better collective response.
Putting Homeownership Preservation on Philanthropy’s Agenda
Three ways funders can have impact on a problem that is critical to closing the racial wealth gap.
The Case for Cost Evidence
There will always be a gap between need and funding in the humanitarian sector. How can we do more for the hundreds of millions of people who need aid? We need to maximize impact for every dollar spent.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Boston
An excerpt from From White Folks Who Teach in the Hood on unplugging from the nonprofit industrial matrix
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.