Countering Coronavirus With Open Social Innovation
Germany’s first government-hosted crisis hackathon offers seven lessons on how to make the most of a messy-but-promising way to kick-start social innovation.
Social Issues - Articles
Leadership, Resilience, and Higher Education’s Promise
Embedding changemaking into the culture and operations of higher education will prepare institutions to deploy their tremendous human capital and knowledge and research assets in innovative, trans-disciplinary, and collaborative ways to address the many challenges ahead.
Part of Innovating Higher Education for the Greater Good, a new series from SSIR and Ashoka U.
Creative Public-Private Collaborations in Taiwan and South Korea Bolster the Fight Against Coronavirus
Cooperation between the public and private sectors in Taiwan and South Korea are enabling a prompt response to the challenge of distributing important health products during the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 and Chinese Civil Society’s Response
An outpouring of aid from nonprofits, foundations, and businesses in the nation first to face the epidemic provide some lessons and caveats for other regions now dealing with similar challenges.
Philanthropy and the Future of Local News
How foundations, journalists, and community organizers in New Jersey passed the nation’s first civic information bill.
Lessons From Mutual Aid During the Coronavirus Crisis
Community-led responses to the COVID-19 epidemic are providing a model for treating the vulnerable that should remain when this crisis comes to an end.
Self-Inquiry for Social Change Leaders
How the internal work of self-inquiry can meaningfully shift our perceptions and behaviors in ways that positively impact the outer world, and how leaders of social change are incorporating the practice into their work and lives.
Normalizing Health-Positive Technology
Health is not a vertical market segment, but a horizontal value, expressed across a company’s full portfolio of products and services.
Coronavirus and Social Change
Read the latest articles in the series on civil society's response to the pandemic:
• Long-Term Change Amid the Crisis
• Businesses in the Developing World
From Emancipation to Social Change
How do Latin American women not only defy gender norms to become entrepreneurs, but turn their own emancipation into societal change-making?