Fixing the Freest Marketplace Money Can Buy
Fourteen ways to create a marketplace that expresses the wishes and best interests of the many, not the few.
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The Refugee Tech Crisis
Digital projects aimed at helping refugees need to consolidate their efforts and work collectively.
Civic Engagement
The Importance of Increasing Turnout in Congressional Primaries
Higher voter turnout in those primaries would help prevent polarization and encourage a well-functioning legislature.
Asking the Small Questions to Support Big Scale
Tackling the nitty-gritty operational details of scale before you start can ease growing pains—three lessons from the East Africa-based nonprofit Educate!.
Impact Innovation: Closing Health Inequities Through Design
Reverse and frugal innovation approaches have their limits when it comes to health impact for the poor. We need more ways to provide high-quality, affordable products to low-income people.
Communicating Data to Drive Change
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation has leveraged the power of information and communication to drive public investment in children and their families.
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Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
In Democratic by Design, Gabriel Metcalf looks at how small-scale, self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business can scale up to effect widespread social change.
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.
The Theory of the Foundation
Mapping out a foundation's theory for itself as an institution can help the organization clarify how it makes choices, allocates resources, and achieves impact.
Civic Engagement
Do We Actually Want Higher Youth Voter Turnout?
Young people can be more engaged in politics, but major institutions must actually want that to happen.