Health
Undercover Solutions
Solutions to social problems are often hidden in the most obvious places, masquerading as problems.
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Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics
To achieve greater impact, membership and advocacy organizations must find new ways to measure engagement.
The Charity Trap
Why a recent exposé on Red Cross failures in Haiti highlights unrealistic expectations for social sector organizations.
Working in the Dark
The nonprofit funding process lacks transparency and fosters insecurity—and only funders can fix it.
Cultivating and Sustaining Generative Teams
Four practices that can help people establish common intent; sense emerging needs and solutions; and collectively prototype, create, and evolve innovative health models and relationships.
Mission-Aligned Investing: More Complex Than It Seems
Even with the best intentions and emerging tools, the current investment framework makes it difficult to match investment portfolios to values.
Creating a Level Playing Field for Social Innovators in Africa
By supporting local innovators, we can solve more social problems and deepen our access to new systems thinking.
Four Learning Principles for the Social Sector
Creative solutions to common learning challenges that social innovators face.
Health Services and Designing for Uncertainty
How a “lean startup” approach can help create an effective community-based program.
Taking the Pulse of Investment in Social Enterprise
A recent survey highlights the important role of social enterprise in poverty alleviation.