Making the Case for Community Organizing in Europe
There are various reasons for a general unease about ‘community organizing’ amongst European funders, ranging from the perception that it…
NGOs Start Thinking Like Businesses in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
NGOs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have shown resilience under pressure by inventing new ways to generate funds, including…
Advancing The Financial Sustainability of Civil Society in Africa
Civil society must become more resilient during these increasingly troubling and uncertain times. It will require creative leadership, organizational agility,…
Let’s Avoid an Artificial Intelligentsia
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in commercial, government, and corporate systems that provide services…
The Future of Human Rights Technology
Technology has been extraordinarily effective in reducing distances between people and places, but it has created an increasing distance…
A Blueprint for Optimism: Civil Society, Open Technology and Transnational Solidarity
The Author describes his experience during his fellowship with New America’s Open Technology Institute in Washington D.C., as a member…
Corporate Structure and Human Rights – a report from the Croatan Forum
“Why should the citizens of this world keep companies around whose sole purpose is the enrichment of a…
Has Their Time Come? A Tale of Two Corporate Responsibility Movements
Amid the many calls for corporations to become socially responsible, two 21st-century movements stand out as being particularly serious about…
Can Benefit Corporations Fix What’s Wrong with Business and Human Rights?
Despite all the progress made since the UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted the landmark UN Guiding…
Share-yngitis: Has Your Non-Profit Lost Its Shareholder Voice?
In late 2018, Chief Investment Officer Magazine announced the winners of their 2018 Industry Innovation Awards. The award…
Rise of the Shadow ESG Regulators
Rissman and Kearney’s post, and the law review article it summarizes, makes the case that the participation of the world’s…
CSO-Investor Dialogue Table
Investors and civil society professionals need to talk. Investors have become better attuned to the risks of human rights harms…
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