The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator describes the journeys of ten innovators who discovered problems that they couldn't ignore.
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Social Issues - Articles
C³: The Exponential Power of Company-Cause-Culture Partnerships
Companies can achieve more than traditional corporate social responsibility efforts by partnering with celebrities.
Meeting the Challenges of Global Health
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.
Guiding Health Innovation
Supplement to the article “Meeting the Challenges of Global Health.”
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The Road to Scale Runs Through Public Systems
The president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation writes about the importance of working with public systems.
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Partners in Impact
The president of Communities In Schools writes about the role funders played in helping his organization scale up.
Women at the Wheel
In Mozambique, an effort to train women as ambulance drivers enhances public safety and fosters opportunity.
Funding the Sun
Village Power Finance gives members of nonprofit associations a novel way to pay for solar conversion projects.
Lots of Opportunity
An online platform helps city governments to discover, organize, and market publicly owned property.
Bike-Sharing Goes Small
Local bike-lending arrangements offer an alternative to bigger, more complex bike-sharing systems.