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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The crucial insight,” write governance scholars Christopher Ansel and Jacob Torfing , “is that no single actor has the knowledge, resources, and capacities to govern alone in our complex and fragmented societies.” Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. What, then, can be done to encourage boundary spanning?

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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey

Stanford Social Innovation Review

From displacement and poverty to illness and environmental degradation, the urgent challenges facing the world today call for innovative approaches that combine an entrepreneurial spirit with a clear understanding of the problems and a firm footing in communities. ”—UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2019. ” Why?

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Governments, corporations, and individuals are not actors with equal amounts of influence. Cohen and Aronoff’s perspectives on climate politics counter the paralytic defeatism of the U.S. political machine with the optimistic energy of organizing climate coalitions. But the question of “we” has always been a fraught one.