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Walking Through Truth: Indigenous Wisdom and Community Health Equity
Despite adversities, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas continue to thrive and develop solutions to social problems that help their communities—and the wider world.
Scaling - Articles
Innovative ways nonprofits can increase their reach and social impact (more)
The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey
Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.
How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development
The pursuit of better social outcomes, not new products, should drive the international development community’s approach to innovative finance.
Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?
As ecosystems of networked organizations, cities provide the necessary scale, reach, and resources to bridge the gap between small experiments and big problems.
The Missing Tool in the Climate Fight
Market-shaping interventions in global health provide a powerful model for the struggle to decarbonize the economy.
Grand Strategy and the Social Innovation Ecosystem
Let’s move beyond our own self-interest and restructure our ecosystem for the challenges yet to come.
Shifting Power to African Organizations
Local social enterprises need support for scaling up.
Not Invented, But Scaled Here
What big international NGOs—BINGOs—need to learn about growing external social enterprise solutions.
In Search of Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship
As the field of social entrepreneurship is engaged in finding solutions for social inequalities, it often falls short of creating opportunities for those who suffer most from those inequalities to become protagonists.
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Building an Innovation Pipeline
An excerpt from Ideaflow on making breakthrough ideas routine