Leading Change Through Adaptive Design
By integrating two practices—design thinking and adaptive leadership—social innovators can manage projects in a way that’s both creatively confident and relentlessly realistic.
Articles P3600
A Slick Vehicle for Street Food
A specially designed food cart that combines high social impact with reduced environmental impact.
Money for Nothing?
In the Netherlands, a modest experiment in welfare policy taps into a very big idea: universal basic income.
Mentoring Meets Its Match
RippleWorks helps entrepreneurs in the developing world tap the expertise of executives and engineers from Silicon Valley.
Muni Bonds for All
An online platform for “microbonds” promises to make it easier for people to invest public works projects.
Revitalizing a Village
A community in rural Vietnam has become the site of a project that seeks to export a successful South Korean development model.
Civil Rights Goes Digital
In both online and offline venues, activists at Color of Change are pursuing the fight for racial justice at Internet speed.
Generations Together
Home-sharing programs in France provide students with a place to live and seniors with a source of companionship.
Harvesting Lessons
A social enterprise that served farmers in Kenya had to close down, but it yielded a healthy crop of insights about failure.
A Checkup on PRIs
For one leading health funder, program-related investments promise to help underserved populations.