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An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education
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Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?
Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior.
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Food Is Her Fight and Her Freedom: Regaining Ground in Rural India
How rural women are unbraiding borders to reclaim power in agrarian India
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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About
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.
Why We’re Targeting the Hardest to Reach Voters
Because the Black male vote is targeted for suppression, defending democracy requires an equally targeted and data-driven response.
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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.