Turning Poison into Economic Opportunity
Arup SenGupta speaks about his project to eliminate arsenic from groundwater without the use of electricity or chemicals.
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Social Issues - Articles
Human-Centered Design and the Last Mile
A collaborative approach to empowering community health workers drives innovation.
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Using Science and Social Enterprise to Improve Rice Crop Yield in India and Bangladesh
Pamela Ronald, of the University of California, Davis, talks about how her laboratory, in collaboration with other scientists, developed a variety of rice with sufficient submergence tolerance to survive severe flooding.
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The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator describes the journeys of ten innovators who discovered problems that they couldn't ignore.
C³: The Exponential Power of Company-Cause-Culture Partnerships
Companies can achieve more than traditional corporate social responsibility efforts by partnering with celebrities.
Meeting the Challenges of Global Health
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.
Guiding Health Innovation
Supplement to the article “Meeting the Challenges of Global Health.”
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The Road to Scale Runs Through Public Systems
The president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation writes about the importance of working with public systems.
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Partners in Impact
The president of Communities In Schools writes about the role funders played in helping his organization scale up.
Women at the Wheel
In Mozambique, an effort to train women as ambulance drivers enhances public safety and fosters opportunity.