Civic Engagement
Putting Government in the People’s Hands
Tracka seeks to close the accountability gap between the Nigerian government and its citizens.
Tag: Transparency
Measurement & Evaluation
Who Should Pay for ESG Infrastructure?
Foundations and nonprofits built the tools that companies now use for ESG reporting, brand credibility, and risk management. Is there a funding model for maintaining these tools so they remain credible, transparent, and financially viable?
Technology
Could AI Speak on Behalf of Future Humans?
AI systems can give voice to previously unheard stakeholders and make collective decision-making processes more inclusive—but only if they are designed thoughtfully and deployed responsibly.
Governance
An Experimental Approach to Early-Stage Nonprofit Governance
Five lessons from a South Korean early-stage nonprofit on why establishing good governance from the beginning matters and how to adapt governance practices as an organization grows.
Human Rights
Lessons From Mutual Aid During the Coronavirus Crisis
Community-led responses to the COVID-19 epidemic are providing a model for treating the vulnerable that should remain when this crisis comes to an end.
sponsored
Driving Social Change With Data
Data is a powerful tool for creating social change, but it can fail to deliver if it lacks rigor or exists in silos. With the right approach, “you can just let the tools do the work,” says the manager of digital infrastructure for the education nonprofit buildOn. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
Civic Engagement
Equity, Power-Sharing, and Renewal of Civil Society
The United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us together and by adopting the newer values of shared power and racial equity.
Civic Engagement
When Aid Fails
The citizen journalism effort What Went Wrong? examines international development projects with the help of reports from people the project was supposed to benefit. A What's Next article from the Summer 2019 issue.
Philanthropy & Funding
China’s New Model of Blockchain-Driven Philanthropy
Blockchain has done more than simply enable Chinese social entrepreneurs to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, and fundraising of the country’s charitable causes. It has helped launch a more decentralized and autonomous philanthropic sector.
Governance
Six Ways to Repair Declining Social Trust
We must take proactive and preventive steps to restore trust across government, business, and civic institutions, or societies around the world may be at greater risk of chaos and conflict.