Amplifying Impact with Mission Investments
How foundations can reimagine a proven philanthropic tool to more effectively address today’s social and environmental challenges.
Social Issues - Articles
Student Debt: An Opportunity and a Challenge for the Nonprofit Workforce
Student debt is hurting recruitment, retention, and diversity in the nonprofit workforce, but a Federal program is poised to help.
Breaking the Double Barrier of Poverty
Instead of prescribing higher education as the silver-bullet solution to poverty, we must provide diverse and contextualized pathways to disadvantaged children, enabling them to redefine the dominant narrative of success.
Impact India
Impact India online offers ongoing coverage of social innovation in India.
Systems Change in Education: It Begins With Us
To make education systems more adaptive, innovative, collaborative, and empathic, we as change leaders must first model these characteristics ourselves.
Onward: Accelerating the Impact of Social Impact Education
University social impact centers are stretched thin. Rather than do more of everything, the best strategy may be to establish a baseline level of services, and then focus on making significant progress in one distinct area.
Designing a Renewable Food System
Borrowing from the renewable energy sector, we can create a better food system by organizing regional governments to create markets for smaller producers and establishing coordinated networks that can amplify best practices.
How Inclusive Businesses Can Tackle Poverty in China
The tide of China’s recent economic boom hasn’t lifted all boats. But inclusive businesses can help provide sustainable solutions for China’s vast impoverished population.
Putting Community First in Social Innovation Education
Social innovation educators are responsible for teaching students how to become collaborative community partners. Here's how.
Shifting Philanthropy From Charity to Justice
We need a new framework for giving to address America's economic, social, and political inequalities.