Social Justice

Last Friday was the final day to mail back the census form. Households who did not return their forms should expect a visit by a census worker in the coming weeks, beginning in May. According to [...]

On Monday I wrote a post about how nonprofit organizations, community leaders and foundations are collaborating to reach hard-to-count populations and ensure that their constituents participate [...]

It looks like your browser cannot or does not support IFRAMES. Any day you should receive notice in the mail about the 2010 Census. The official questionnaire will follow the initial announcement [...]

On June 30, President Obama announced his pledge to support social innovation from the “bottom up.” As a community organizer in Chicago, he learned that the some of the best solutions [...]

Yesterday San Francisco launched RecoverySF.org to highlight the progress of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in the City and County of San Francisco. The idea is to build [...]

Earlier today, President Obama signed an Executive Order to create the White House Council on Women and Girls. The mission of the council will be to provide a coordinated federal response to the [...]

With the historic inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama less than a day away, communities across the country are responding to Obama’s call to service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther [...]

The Stanford Center for Social Innovation recently released a podcast of a talk by San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom titled Gavin Newsom: Say what you think, then take action. To an [...]

In recent months, nonprofit presses in Berkeley have released new books that highlight diverse Bay Area neighborhoods and unexpected ways communities come together. In September, Heyday Books, [...]

In October, the New York Times published an op-ed article called “The Green-Collar Solution” by journalist Thomas L. Friedman. The piece is about Van Jones’ crusade to bring [...]