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Sage Bionetworks is transforming the culture of biomedical research with open-source methods.
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ChildObesity180 is combating the nation’s child obesity epidemic by incubating and promoting the best ideas.
The Impact of Periods
Promoting menstrual health is critical to women’s economic empowerment around the world.
Pound Foolish
Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.
Beyond Command-and-Control Campaigns
Many see distributed, directed-network campaigning as the unique domain of small advocacy groups, but the approach has generated impressive results for established organizations as well.
Collaborating after the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Following the largest single act of social media fundraising, the ALS Association was faced with a “good crisis”—and a big challenge.
Stop Talking About Health Care, Start Talking About People
If we want Americans to be healthy, we must change the conversation.
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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.
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.
Changing the False Narrative That Conflates Gun Violence and Mental Illness
Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. Another spate of shootings in the United States spurs more conversations about the causes and contexts of gun-fueled murders. President Trump points to mental illness, an argument that many people have challenged, including SSIR author Kevin T. Kirkpatrick in this May 2017 article.