Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom - Stanford Social …
2023年3月8日 · 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 implications of media for individuals, families, and ...
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
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Collectively Owned Strategies Can Rebalance Philanthropic Power
Funder-owned strategies often reinforce donor-grantee power imbalances and focus on short-term measurable gains, thereby limiting philanthropic impact. Global and systemic challenges can be addressed more effectively with strategies that are collectively owned. | Open-access to this article made possible by Dalberg Catalyst.
A New Paradigm for Community Development Finance - ssir.org
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 ...
What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
2015年5月12日 · 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 ...
Community Building Is Essential to Social Change …
2024年11月7日 · 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 ...
Wikimedia Foundation: Building Trust Through Community
2024年11月21日 · 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 - Stanford Social Innovation Review
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 …
The Vision of a Well-Being Economy - Stanford Social Innovation …
2020年12月16日 · To solve the social, economic, and environmental challenges we face today, we need to rethink the status quo. Governments and other institutions around the world need to embrace new ways of thinking and actively engage in widespread systems innovation to make real progress toward a healthier, more prosperous world.
When It Comes to Understanding Donors, Does Size Matter Most?
2024年10月10日 · 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 donate billions of dollars annually to charitable causes.