Innovation stories on collaborating for greater impact, protecting and preserving history, affordable housing, an inspiring ...

While it may be tempting to ask whether a system has changed, it is a question that makes no inherent sense. Systems are ...

Highlights of this year’s book reviews and excerpts on topics including gun violence prevention, cash transfers, refugees, regenerative agriculture, adapting to climate change, reinventing solidarity, ...

It’s clear that public discourse in the United States today is dominated by extremes, whether we’re talking about climate change or refugee policy. Many different factors are contributing to the sense ...

Civic Engagement The Emerging Field of Political Innovation Civil society has attended to social problems for decades while intentionally refraining from overt engagement with politics. But a new ...

An excerpt from Evaluative Inquiry for Systemic Change on embedding value into evaluation ...

As Brazilian author Paulo Coelho writes, “You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” This is an apt metaphor for how trauma impacts people, individually and collectively.

Twelve-year old Anna has asthma. She lives in a low-income neighborhood and gets her care at a clinic affiliated with a major teaching hospital. Despite high-quality medical care, Anna’s asthma is not ...

In Liverpool, an exhausted homeless shelter worker puts her head in her hands at the end of another long day. The system she works in is failing the people it is supposed to serve, and she feels ...

Last summer, institutions across sectors were called to account for their failure to address systemic racism. Many organizational leaders addressed the backlash by requesting trainings and ...

When working in collaboration with others, where there’s no single person in charge and the way forward is unclear, it can be hard to know when to lead and when to follow. In these situations, you may ...

Business as usual is failing the planet and all of us. Our economy is not creating a livable society for most people. It is fueling climate change, worsening wealth inequality, seeding the conditions ...