A Swimmer’s Guide to Networks
Understanding how network members interact with each other is crucial to advancing their common aims.
Sectors - Articles
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Human-Centric Business
An excerpt from Convergence argues that today’s leaders must recognize the many signals of accelerating disruption and the increasing convergence where people, technology, and business intersect.
The Social Sector Needs a Meta Movement
By creating a network of grassroots movements and calling out connections across issues, the social sector can drive demand for solutions and spur policy makers to act.
How to Make the Most Out of Business Accelerator Programs for Development
Research on 23,000 ventures reveals factors that donors, managers, and entrepreneurs should consider as they choose to support, run, or use accelerators, the increasingly popular training programs that help businesses succeed.
Spotlighting Shared Outcomes for Social Impact Programs That Work
A greater focus on co-created, measurable outcomes can help build trust between public, private, and social sector partners, and thus improve the effectiveness of outcomes-based contracting and the social programs they create.
Research to Build Resilient Social Economy Ecosystems in Europe
Under the broad umbrella of “the social economy,” research has a major role to play in helping us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of multiple forms of social entrepreneurship.
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Thinking Small
An excerpt from Amateurs without Borders explores a new wave of grassroots development aid putting NGO work back in the hands of amateurs.
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
Social-Tech Entrepreneurs: Building Blocks of a New Social Economy
How a new genre of social entrepreneur can wield emerging technologies to create integrated and inclusive social and industrial policies.
Four Ways to Age-Integrate National Service
National service programs can bring together older and younger people to serve side by side, producing a windfall of human and social capital, plus much-needed generational and cultural understanding.