INSIGHTS
The Social Impact Journal
How To Build Strong Nonprofit Collaborations
Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in addressing complex societal challenges and driving positive change. Find out the 5 steps nonprofits must take to ensure strong and successful collaborations.
The Step Most Nonprofits Miss When Strategic Planning, and How You Can Get It Right
You can develop a strategic plan, but how do you make it actionable? There is a key phase of the strategic planning process that most nonprofits miss, meaning their strategic plans end up sitting on the shelf. Find out how to properly prepare for implementation from the beginning of your strategic planning process.
Five Critical Flaws in Traditional Nonprofit Strategic Planning and How You Can Avoid Them
Learn how ineffective strategic plans are the reason why Nonprofit leaders are unable to bridge the gap between their highest vision and reality.
Silicon Valley Could Be The Answer For California’s Prisons
Most ex-prisoners find themselves leaving incarceration less employable than before they went in. They’ve been out of the workforce a long time and many lack the skills, experience or confidence to enter higher quality jobs. On top of all that is the stigma attached to being an ex-con.
How One Inmate Learned To Read And Escape Gang Culture
Gang membership within prisons has also been increasing over the last few years. Even those that manage to keep out of the gang scene on the outside find themselves under intense recruitment pressure once they’re in the prison system.
Redesigning the Criminal Justice System in the US
We are launching a new series on criminal justice reform that looks at the specific challenges we currently face as a country in our prisons and jails, how we got here, and what we can do about it.
Courts Can Do More Than Just Administer Jail Sentences
The Californian prison system is failing its mentally-ill and drug-addicted inmates, and as a result they keep coming back. There are now ten times as many mentally-ill individuals in jails and state prisons than there are in state mental hospitals. Over half of all jail and prison inmates are there for crimes committed while using either drugs or alcohol. Many receive little to no treatment during their time in prison.