One of the most interesting aspects of this placement was the opportunity to work with the Communauté de Base (COBA), a local organization which is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...

CLARISSA responded to the complex challenge of child labour through a deliberate and participatory approach to adaptive management. But what does it really mean to implement such an approach in ...

The global action research project Valuing Volunteering explores how and why volunteering contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable positive change, and the factors that prevent it doing so.

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Traditional philanthropy has a problem. The top-down, hierarchical power structure often undercuts efforts to make lasting change. In fact, the system itself can mirror the very conditions that ...