Featured Articles on Social Change:
Movement as Network
This is a paper I published in 2004 called “Movement as Network: Connecting People and Organizations in the Environmental Movement.” This link is to a synopsis of its core ideas. You can also download the full paper in PDF format.
Networks, Organizations and Movements
When thinking about social change movements, networks teach us that it all comes down to the human connection.
Why So Many Social Change Organizations Struggle
When nonprofit organizations with issue-specific, niche missions organize themselves around individual donor fundraising, it creates waste, dysfunction and drains power away from real social change.
When Organizational Goals Clash with Social Change Goals
This morning I received an online petition to support changes to US fuel efficiency standards, and the reasons I didn’t sign it say a lot about the problems of the social change sector today.
Latest Articles on Social Change:
- Week in Review: May 21, 2012 Seven ideas on meaningful work, myth, mobile computing, philanthropy, and networks.
- Why So Many Social Change Organizations Struggle When nonprofit organizations with issue-specific, niche missions organize themselves around individual donor fundraising, it creates waste, dysfunction and drains power away from real social change.
- Networks, Organizations and Movements When thinking about social change movements, networks teach us that it all comes down to the human connection.
- When Organizational Goals Clash with Social Change Goals This morning I received an online petition to support changes to US fuel efficiency standards, and the reasons I didn’t sign it say a lot about the problems of the social change sector today.
- The Heart of the Occupation Like new-born hearts, beating and radiating from many locations and in all directions, the Occupy Movement is reframing our environmental and social problems as the symtoms of one root cause: the concentration of wealth and its corruptive influence on business and government. The vibrancy of this movement is giving courage to many, and may even ...
- Keeping Wall Street Like Cairo, Not London What we are seeing in Occupy Wall Street and related events around the country is our youth, at least some small segment of it, telling us that everything is not alright. They are telling us that our social fabric is stretched to a dangerous point of fraying.
- Citizens United v. United Citizens: Building a Movement to Drive Money Out of Politics This article originally published on the Huffington Post. Friday, January 21st, marks the one-year anniversary of “Citizens United,” a Supreme Court case that dramatically accelerates the corruptive force of money in U.S. politics. When money flows in our economy, it’s a fuel that helps businesses flourish and people make a living. When money flows in our political ...
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