This is the 2st part of our Year in Review Series, in which we reconnect with our group of experts about the trends they forecasted for social entrepreneurship in 2011 and look forward to the year ahead. Amy Clark, the U.S. Fellow Selection ...
Marc Brackett never liked school. “I was always bored,” he says, “and I never felt like any of my teachers really cared. I can’t think of anybody that made me feel inspired.” It’s a surprising complaint coming from a 42-year-old Yale research scientist ...
Earlier this week, the New York Times published a powerful work of investigative reporting by Danny Hakim, which exposed terrible abuse and negligence in New York State’s institutions for the developmentally disabled. The story, which focused on the death of a 13-year-old autistic boy at the hands of a caretaker of the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center (O.D. Heck) would fill any reader with outrage.
Hakim’s reporting is superb and detailed. Go read it. I hope he and his colleagues win awards for this and other stories on the issue.
But while the piece did a great job of exposing the problem, it said little about how we could fix it. This is an area where journalism often fails. And we want to know -- how could we improve it?
Can writers promote causes for social change, and should they? Tracy Kidder is author of numerous essays and books of fiction and nonfiction, and is recently best known for Mountains Beyond Mountains, his story of the life and work of Paul Farmer, founder ...
Why are gender-based issues primarily considered “women’s” issues? Josie Lehrer founded the Men’s Story Project (MSP) to rethink this faulty truism. Intended for local replication, the MSP uses performance and dialogue to create public spaces for men to share their experience of male ...
Eight years ago, the human rights activist and award-winning filmmaker Ronit Avni conducted over 475 interviews with Israeli and Palestinian activists to find out what kind of support they needed to advance peace. The overwhelming answer was to become more visible. The pockets ...
Amy Clark joined Ashoka more than ten years ago, even before the organization began its work in the United States. Clark has spent the majority of her time at Ashoka working with the global teams, and transitioned to focusing on the U.S. selection ...
Video has a unique power to convey human experience, to make a viewer lean forward, engage, and empathize with the subject on film. Using the tagline “See It, Film It, Change It,” the organization WITNESS harnesses this power by training groups to use ...
Talk about a single girl who's been trafficked from her home country, held captive, and forced into servitude -- and your audience will naturally listen and sympathize. But talk about the number of individuals around the world who face a situation like hers ...
Is it possible to create an arresting intimacy in a matter of words? Larry Smith's Six-Word Memoir Project, an Internet hit turned New York Times best seller, continues to surprise readers -- and it reveals both the potential for crowd-sourced idea generation and ...