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Action Is the Antidote: Building Democracy Between Elections

Democracy isn’t decided on Election Day; it’s built between elections. Skye Perryman, President and CEO of Democracy Forward ...
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Dialogue That Builds: Moving from Toxic Polarization to Proactive Citizen Engagement

Political polarization is rising, yet Americans agree on far more than the outrage cycle suggests. In this conversation, Maury Giles, CEO of Braver Angels, talks with Sandy Kresch, ALI ’21, about how ...
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Grassroots Revolution: Building Resilient Nonprofits with Strategies from Political Fundraising

Grassroots donors – those contributing $200 or less – have emerged as a formidable force in American politics. These small donors gave $4 billion to candidates in the 2020 election cycle, an amount ...
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The Moral and Economic Answer to NYC’s Homelessness Isn’t Shelter, It’s Housing

Christine Quinn is the President and Chief Executive Officer of WIN (formerly Women in Need), the largest provider of shelter, social services, and supportive housing for homeless families in New York ...
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Shared Responsibility for Climate Change: Who Should Fund the Solutions?

Who is responsible for the carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are causing our planet to warm? It is important to know, as only then can the problem be analyzed, and a solution ...
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Elevating Qualitative Data in Impact Performance Reporting

An impact investor reports that they created 1,000 new jobs. But what does this number really mean? The impact investing industry has made great strides when it comes to quantification and ...
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Music, Protest, and the Power of Collective Voice

Ronald Eyerman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University and a founding co-director of Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology. Trained at the University of Lund in Sweden, Eyerman has become ...
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THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION SERIES:

A conversation with John B. King, former Secretary of Education and President and CEO of The Education Trust, on the Biden/Harris administration's first 100 days in the education domain. A ...
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From Reimagining Capitalism to Reweaving Ourselves: Leadership for a Sustainable and Caring Future in a World on Fire

Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of both the British Academy and the American Academy of ...
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Inspiring and Shaping Future Social Impact Leaders

He is also a partner and board member at Bridges Fund Management, a specialist sustainable and impact investor with $1 billion+ under management that invests in mission-driven businesses, real-estate ...
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It Takes A Village: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Solving Homelessness in America

Homelessness in America cannot be summarized in a sound bite. Too often as a society, we search for a simple solution when faced with overwhelming complexity. We have seen that a one-size-fits-all ...