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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
We polled some of our favorite thinkers and doers in the SSIR world to recommend the best book they read this year, and why.
A New Paradigm for Community Development Finance
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 ...
Winter 2025 (SSIR)
Winter 2025. Volume 23, Number 1 Read about how funders can achieve greater impact through the collective ownership of strategies; how the community development field should rethink financing to prioritize impact, flexibility, and local empowerment; how development professionals should work with the existing assets of informal economies; how …
Healing Trauma in Systems Opens Up New Pathways to Social …
Types of Trauma. Individual trauma refers to an invisible wound caused by an overwhelming event, series of events, or enduring conditions. Depending on the level of threat to our life, our autonomic nervous system responds with high levels of stimulation and movement (the fight or flight response) or shuts down (the freeze response).
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 …
Design Thinking for Social Innovation - Stanford Social Innovation …
Notes. 1 "In Memoriam: Jerry Sternin," Positive Deviance Initiative. 2 "Nutrition in Viet Nam," Positive Deviance Initiative. 3 "What Is Positive Deviance?" Positive Deviance Initiative. 4 "The Viet Nam Story: Narrated by Jerry Sternin," Positive Deviance Initiative. 5 Kevin Starr,"Go Big or Go Home," Stanford Social Innovation Review, fall …
The Science of What Makes People Care - Stanford Social …
Aug 16, 2018 · People seek information that makes them feel good about themselves and allows them to be a better version of themselves. If you start with this understanding of the human mind and behavior, you can design campaigns that help people see where your values intersect and how the issues you are working on matter to them.
Grounding Leadership in Community Wisdom - Stanford Social …
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 …
Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community …
Jul 26, 2023 · We live in an interesting time. A movement against facing the truth of US history and acknowledging the existence of systemic racism is sweeping through many parts of our country. Colonization is embedded in that history—European settlements of the 17th and 18th centuries are referred to as colonies.