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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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.
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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Data On Purpose | Do Good Data: Causal Inference Meets Big Data
Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, discusses methods of big data analysis that can indicate not just correlation but also causality.
Pushing the Boundaries of Impact Investing
Recent experimentation in global health research and development reveals how nonprofit organizations can explore and potentially attract impact investment.
Using Collaboration to Harness Big Data for Social Good
Not every nonprofit has a data science team. To truly harness big data for social good, we need collaborations between individuals, across organizations, and across sectors.
Inclusive Prosperity in an Age of Local Action
Communities cannot and should not wait for external forces to bridge local opportunity divides.
Down the Rabbit Hole? Impact Investing and Large Foundations
Impact investing makes sense in theory, but there are good reasons, particularly for large foundations, to pause before putting a lot of resources into it.
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The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur
In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.