(Appropriate) Big Data for Climate Resilience?
Three huge opportunities and three risks.
Solutions - Articles
Design Thinking for Evaluation and Learning
Three ways design thinking can maximize the relevance and impact of evaluation and organizational learning efforts.
Social Innovation: What It Is and What It Isn’t
The free market can do plenty of good on its own, so let's think more systematically beyond it.
Working with the Undercurrents
What tomorrow’s leaders can learn from artists.
Why Open Contests Work
A look at how competitions like those at the Knight Foundation serve the social entrepreneur community.
Design for Purpose, Execute for Profit
Part 1 of 3: The genesis of Song Investment Advisors and its governing theory.
In Search of Respectful Debate
Reasonable, open, and credible debate is missing across government, business, and civil society—how can we bring it back?
Dump the Stupid Prizes, Multiply the Rest
Why we need more social enterprise competitions.
The Five Stages of Social Innovation at Scale
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?
We need to broaden philanthropy’s view of social sciences.