Mar 8, 2023 · Brian Carey Sims is the founder and executive director of Jomoworks, an education management consulting firm specializing in partnership development between universities and K-12 schools.His research focuses on school mental health, agricultural life and sustainability, and human justice and healing, with a particular emphasis on the …

An excerpt from The Little Book of Impact Investing provides a history of the term and activity in the space and addresses why now is a perfect time to make business do more and do better—so that the world can and will too.

Dec 16, 2024 · In 2024, SSIR articles covered a wide range of topics that were top of mind for social change leaders. But if you were to assign a theme to this list of most-read articles, it might be that lasting solutions to social problems will need to dig deeper to repair broken systems.

May 12, 2015 · David M. Chavis, Ph.D. (@chavispower) is the Principal Associate and CEO of Community Science and is internationally recognized for his work in the implementation, support, and evaluation of community and systems change initiatives.The primary focus of his work has been the relationship between community development and the prevention of poverty, violence, substance abuse, and other social ...

Nov 7, 2024 · As traditional power dynamics shift, participatory models are emerging. And as Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans highlight in their important book, New Power, old hierarchies are giving way to more distributed networks.Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) tools will be integral to everyone’s daily lives, and they will reshape how foundations and nonprofits achieve their missions—especially when ...

The traditional model of community development finance is limited by market conservatism and a focus on scale, rather than local control. We need a new paradigm that prioritizes impact over scale, emphasizes flexible and creative financing strategies, and empowers community voice. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Center for Community Investment, a sponsored ...

Nov 21, 2024 · In 2020, people viewed COVID-related content on Wikipedia—the free, online encyclopedia—579 million times in more than 180 languages. In fact, medical content on the site received more pageviews than any other health information resource online that year.

Fall 2024. Volume 22, Number 4 Read about how a bipartisan 20-year campaign boosted US high school graduation rates, how US public education can serve democracy by preparing students to become better citizens, how climate alliances can help business leaders push their industries to adopt more ambitious sustainability goals, how the world’s first privately led …

Oct 10, 2024 · One of the most fundamental distinctions we tend to make in US philanthropy is between individual and institutional donors. Individual donors include both wealthy philanthropists and millions of average Americans who collectively …

Sep 16, 2024 · sponsored Civic Engagement Invigorating and Expanding Civic Power . True believers in democracy must take steps to unlock people’s civic agency, with a particular focus on strategies that make democracies more inclusive, more people-centered, and more responsive to the needs and aspirations of all.