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 …
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing and Inspiring …
sponsored “Our souls are crying out for something right now.” In a time of deep division, how can organizations reflect the vision and values of a true multiracial democracy and begin to bring people back together?
Community Building Is Essential to Social Change …
Nov 7, 2024 · 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 ...
How the Biggest US Nonprofits Are Funded - Stanford Social …
Jun 20, 2024 · Government: Of the organizations in our data set with a dominant funding category, government—federal, state, or local—is the dominant revenue category for 40 percent of them.Almost half of these organizations are in education or human services, representing a “natural match,” whereby governments contract with or provide grants to nonprofit agencies for services that government ...
What Is Community Anyway? - Stanford Social Innovation Review
May 12, 2015 · 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 ...
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.
Wikimedia Foundation: Building Trust Through Community
Nov 21, 2024 · 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.
How Organizations Build Trust - Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jan 11, 2024 · With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (the views in this article do not necessarily represent those of the foundation), a team of us at Spitfire Strategies took a close look at the social science research from the last 20 years about earning and rebuilding trust, interviewed and heard from more than 25 leaders on their trust-building work, and explored case studies to see trust ...
AI’s Impact on Jobs and Work Is a Choice Between Two Futures
Oct 25, 2023 · In November 2022, OpenAI grabbed headlines by releasing ChatGPT, and “generative AI” became a term used in households around the world. According to Open AI CEO Sam Altman, “A lot of people working on AI pretend that it’s only going to be good; it’s only going to be a supplement; no one is ever going to be replaced.”But, he adds, “jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.”
Strengthen Media Literacy to Win the Fight Against Misinformation
Mar 18, 2021 · The deliberate or unintentional spread of misinformation, despite capturing widespread public attention, remains as rampant as ever, showing up recently in the form of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, the Capitol riot, and many other topics.This “infodemic” is polarizing politics, endangering communities, weakening institutions, and leaving people unsure what to believe or whom to trust.