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Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For as long as most of us can remember, social enterprises and social movements have sought to disrupt systems from the outside or to make fundamental policy changes from the top down. By Jim Bildner & Stephanie Khurana. And it was undeniable. In Education.

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A Fair Shot for Every Child: The Nuts and Bolts of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images For Unsplash+ This article is the second in a three-part series Building Wealth for the Next Generation: The Promise of Baby Bonds a co-production of NPQ and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School for Social Research in New York City.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

said Cory Howat, Executive Director of the Catholic Community Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We For example, some foundations or organizations don’t support faith or religion-based organizations, said Gillian Doucet Campbell, Director of Stewardship and Development for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A renowned leader on environmental issues—winning the Green Capital Award in 2015—Bristol is also marked by historic social and racial disparity: A 2017 report by the Runnymede Trust, a racial equality research group, ranked Bristol as one of the most unequal cities in the country.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

A weekly update with the latest social sector news. Released in collaboration with Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and the Leona M. Melinda French Gates won’t give bulk of her wealth to Gates Foundation. Chicago Public Media raises $61 million to acquire Chicago Sun-Times. and Harry B.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We recommend that in the coming years foundations put the power of their significant resources behind three themes, each with a different kind of transformative potential. ” To do that, organizers must work with champions within government agencies to align resources, practices, and systems to implement hard-fought policy wins.