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Reading List: Bridging Divides to Create Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review ’s 2022 Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) will focus on opportunities to bridge the divides that exist in society. The conference will explore the role of civil society organizations in finding common ground, ways to facilitate collaboration, combatting disinformation, and other topics.

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Small Organizations: The Change That Systems Change Needs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Lior Ipp If you’ve been working in philanthropy for longer than a week, you’ve probably come across a report, analysis, or opinion piece about systems change. The most pernicious one is the narrative regarding small, locally led organizations and our low expectations of them (which is not exclusive to the social change space).

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Public funding agencies, such as the Global Environment Facility and USAID, are also expressing their own intentions to get more climate and biodiversity funding to local, community-level, and Indigenous organizations. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

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Dr. James explains what happens when fundraising metrics go bad

iMarketSmart

Another questions, “If philanthropy is all about relationships, then why do metrics only measure money?”[3]. Now, suppose we’re managing a group of social media “influencers.” The social media manager then shares the best metrics for managing “writers” and their “output.” This social/sharing world has different rules.

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The Long Shadow of Workplace Surveillance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For blue-collar trades, workers were subjected to numerous mandatory new health screenings, from temperature checks to social distancing sensors, while still frequently lacking real protections against the pandemic. The Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Union has fought national proposals to mandate recording in all Australian public transport.

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Building Solidarity for Transformative Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And what would it take for us to realize solidarity in our relationships, our communities, our social movements, and our governments? Rather it’s the product of considerable effort, organizing, and a willingness to reimagine just about every facet of a social structure that rewards the few while sowing division among the many.

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Progressive Organizations Must Speak Up about Palestine

NonProfit Quarterly

Polls show that an overwhelming majority of the American public support a ceasefire and that our elected officials who refuse to budge on the issue are misaligned with their constituents. Collective action and acts of civil resistance are helping shift the Overton window around the conflict.