Global Issues
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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Nonprofits & NGOs
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Software For Good
What can social sector organizations learn from large companies about using data to maximize impact?
Scaling
What Exactly Do We Mean by Systems?
Everyone is talking about systems. Or at least, that's how it seems in my wonkish corner of the philanthropic world. You can't attend a conference or even have a meeting without hearing about systems, whether it's people trying to disrupt them, map them, learn from them, or catalyze them.
Collaboration
The Next Wave in Fundraising Collaboration
Three considerations for nonprofits looking to work together to raise funds.
Business
Data: The Next Frontier for Impact Investing
A call for investors to share their data to expand the field’s understanding of the breadth and depth of activity.
Education
More Girls in STEM Means Improving STEM Teacher Training
Providing teachers with gender sensitivity training is a first step toward addressing gender inequality in STEM. But it’s not the last.
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Business
The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
How companies in industries such as pharmaceuticals are starting to learn that by giving more data away, they actually get more back.
Philanthropy & Funding
Cultivating Legitimacy in Philanthropy
It’s worth remembering that communities have the power to take away philanthropy’s social license to operate.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Casual Inference Meets Big Data
Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, discusses the conceptual framework required to establish causal inference and computational methods that can allow causality to be inferred.