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Out of the Lab and into the Frontline
How embracing uncertainty can help cultivate Canada’s social R&D ecosystem.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Leapfrogging Toward Success in Education
A new approach to addressing skills uncertainty and inequality across the globe.
Scaling Science
A new approach to scaling is needed in which the goal is scaling up social impact for public good. Open access to this article is made possible by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Creating a Policy Index for the Arts
The National Arts Index established a quantitative measure for arts vitality in the United States that aided public discussion by policy makers and the arts community. In the era of big data, what can we learn from its creation and impact?
Optimizing on the Edges
Combining tools such as design thinking, behavioral science, and evaluation can shape programs to improve patient experiences and change health behaviors.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
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.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.