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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Conversation with Vincent Bevins

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. Often, they are said to “prefigure” the society they wish to bring about.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.