Collaboration
How Research Universities Can Help the Refugee Crisis
Academic-humanitarian collaborations that mobilize rigorous scientific research can improve the effectiveness of aid efforts.
Business
Doing Business in Africa: Where Strategy Meets Social Investment
Five strategic principles for businesses thinking about entering a new market.
Business
Big Blue Volunteers
From Mumbai, India, to Mérida, Mexico, IBM employees are applying
their professional skills to a wide range of social challenges.
Education
A Big Problem, a Small Experiment, and a Lot of Noise
Liberia’s leaders are trying to jump-start their schools. Give them a break.
Civic Engagement
Boost Turnout in Primaries By Targeting ‘November-Only Voters’
A recent get-out-the-vote experiment shows that turnout in primaries can be cost-effectively enlarged and broadened by targeting voters who only vote in general elections and who are often ignored by campaigns.
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Health
Repurposing Social Impact Bonds for Medicine
Social finance could provide much-needed incentives for the development of known generic drugs to treat new diseases.
Business
Looking Good by Doing Good
Four ways corporate philanthropists can do better by their beneficiaries—and themselves.
Advocacy
Dismantling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
How the Palm Center used long-term, strategic communications to break down a widely held belief and overturn a discriminatory Pentagon policy.
Organizational Development
Book Excerpt: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
An Everyone Culture argues that organizations do best when they build an environment that encourages constant personal development among their employees.
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Collaboration
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Leadership
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
How do you define social entrepreneurship?
Economic Development
The Problem with Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Philanthropy & Funding
Tapping the Great Potential of Female Philanthropists
Ten ways to better engage high-net-worth women donors, and work with them to effectively invest in women and girls, and other social causes.
Leadership
Tackling Heropreneurship
Why we need to move from “the social entrepreneur” to social impact.
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Education
A Big Problem, a Small Experiment, and a Lot of Noise
Liberia’s leaders are trying to jump-start their schools. Give them a break.
Nonprofits & NGOs
No Exit: The Case for Nonprofit Holding Companies
Applying the structure of a holding company to the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors could help both small, high-potential organizations and larger anchor organizations flourish.
Foundations
Making Good Ideas Go Viral
A less-traveled path to education reform: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is catalyzing three social forces to create an epidemic of best practice.
Organizational Development
Forgetting Failure
It’s time to move beyond our focus on failure in the social sector, and to develop ongoing and meaningful practices for learning and improvement.
Philanthropy & Funding
Tapping the Great Potential of Female Philanthropists
Ten ways to better engage high-net-worth women donors, and work with them to effectively invest in women and girls, and other social causes.