Teaching Values and Purpose for Social Change
It is time for universities to rethink how they deliver social impact education, prioritizing experiential and purpose-based training over start-up competitions.
It is time for universities to rethink how they deliver social impact education, prioritizing experiential and purpose-based training over start-up competitions.
Six lessons from a large-scale, cross-sector initiative to improve education.
We must better understand user-centered design’s limitations—not just its strengths—in the context of international development. And we must adapt it from its original uses designing commercial products to solving for social good.
Growth and scale aren't the same thing. Here's what you need to know if you're serious about getting to scale.
When a pay-for-success project succeeds in improving social outcomes, governments should establish a new performance-based contract to continue to scale successful programs.
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
Five practical considerations for organizations that want to use intentional influence to achieve a bold social goal.
The superficially enticing “logic” of effective altruism ultimately leads to a moralistic, hyper-rationalistic, top-down approach to philanthropy that can kill the very altruistic spirit it claims to foster.
There’s only one bottom line. It ought to be impact.
America must invest in art and imaginative capacity.