The James Irvine Foundation has awarded the Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz a two-year, $700,000 community-level learning partner grant as part of its Priority Communities ...

UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation is celebrating its five-year anniversary and has released an impact report reflecting on progress made thus far. The institute is the Social Science ...

Social change denotes the transformation of values, norms, institutions and power relations within societies. It unfolds through shifts in cultural practices, collective behaviours and policy ...

The world is grappling with increasingly complex social challenges—challenges that no single organization or individual can solve alone. Climate change, healthcare access, education reform and clean ...

Businesses play a crucial role in building a sustainable future, but it's the passionate individuals within these organizations who often lead the change. Known by many names— tempered radicals, ...

The Black Lives Matter movement is one of the largest social movements in history. In 2020, millions of people marched in racial justice protests across all seven continents—even Antarctica. Companies ...

Within social justice and movement building work, love is frequently mentioned but rarely defined or operationalized. In this three-part series on the Critical Theory of Love framework, author Durryle ...

The participatory culture of the streaming, social-media age has changed nearly every norm of how effective human rights activism works. At the same time, the entertainment industry finds itself in ...