Creating a University From Scratch
How Minerva is reimagining higher education now and partnering to scale for impact in the future. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
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How the Social Sector Can Use Natural Language Processing
Uncovering invisible patterns in vast datasets cannot only automate a variety of tasks, freeing up people to do more valuable and creative work that machines can’t do, but provide new kinds of learning.
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Tech and Data That Inform, Inspire, and Involve
The public radio and television station KQED has thrived amid a tumultuous period in the media industry by using technology and data to optimize the delivery of its grassroots journalism and improve relationships with its listeners. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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When a Business Goes Digital
An excerpt from The Forever Transaction examines how Under Amour transformed its business by going online.
Crisis and Adaptation for the Public Good
How Tulane University rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with a renewed commitment to embedding social innovation and community engagement at the core of its mission. Part of Innovating Higher Education for the Greater Good, a new series from SSIR and Ashoka U.
Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
Racial bias creeps into all parts of the philanthropic and grantmaking process. The result is that nonprofits led by people of color receive less money than those led by whites, and philanthropy ends up reinforcing the very social ills it says it is trying to overcome.
Three Things Nonprofits Should Prioritize in the Wake of COVID-19
Why organizations need to examine their social impact, economic viability, and capacity to deliver in order to remain relevant and viable both now and into the future.
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.
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Taking Action
Nonprofit leaders discuss how their organizations have used technology to better connect with and meet the expectations of their constituents. Part of the Technology for Change series produced by Stanford Social Innovation Review with the support of Salesforce.
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.