As state and local governments in the United States start spending the largest infusion of direct federal funding in history, they should make sure they aren’t investing in systems that increase inequity.
The most pressing social problems facing cities today require multiagency and cross-sector solutions. We offer tools and techniques to facilitate the process of diagnosing and solving problems by breaking down silos to build up cities.
Open-access to this article made possible by the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative.
Establishing a shared understanding of Fresno’s racist policies and practices is key to how The Shared Prosperity Partnership will share power with residents who have been routinely excluded.
Three ways funders can have impact on a problem that is critical to closing the racial wealth gap.
The Trust for Public Land developed a framework to build community power through the creation and stewardship of green spaces. Our work demonstrates the power of parks to enrich democracy. | Open access to this article is made possible by The Trust for Public Land.
The city of Paris is turning empty properties into homes to relieve a supply-strapped housing market.
CAST provides art organizations a pathway to property ownership, giving artists much-needed space to create and display their work.
Government agencies are more likely to incorporate effective interventions if they apply to activities they are already doing.
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.
How government and philanthropy can unlock the billions needed to shelter America’s unhoused
