Millennials MoveOn
To propel young folks to the polls, a political organization mixed Web 2.0 tools with social science savvy.
Solutions - Articles
The Best Thing We Can Do for Nonprofits–and Ourselves
We must actively withhold support when we see the government acting in a way counter to our ideals and its own.
Podcast
Diana McLain Smith - How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength
The key to success in any team or enterprise is to develop good working relationships. In this talk, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, consultant Diana McLain Smith, author of Divide and Conquer: How Great Teams Turn Conflict into Strength, shows how those who care about performance and relationships can simultaneously nurture both. She offers tips for seeing work relationships in new ways, and practical suggestions for enhancing them.
Charter Schools and Unions: Good Ideas in Conflict?
Unionizing charter-school teachers bring to light the ever-present income inequity that takes place within the nonprofit sector.
Podcast
Randy Wang - Education Through Community Participation
If you had to design a system to improve the quality of education in distant underprivileged schools, where would you begin? You might first step away from the problem and ask: What is the simplest "system" that could work in the real world? In this audio interview with host Sheela Sethuraman, Randy Wang describes his motivation to create Digital StudyHall, a collection of mundane technologies that have dramatically improved long distance education. He also talks about his progress and goals.
Data Mining from The Collaboration Prize Applicants
Collaboration Prize competition entries prove a rich resource for nonprofit mergers.
Generation Y and the Perils of Milli Vanilli Leadership
Generation Y leaders benefit from acting their age.
Shades of Green
Social networking tools reveal that there is an intricate web of relationships between business and environmentalists, which if developed could benefit the environmental movement.
You’re Never Too Young to Change the World
High school kids restore faith in the next generation of social change.
Podcast
Craig Venter - Genetics and Environmental Sustainability
Can environmental sustainability be supported by genetics? In this audio interview, Craig Venter, a pioneer in genetic research, discusses some of his key discoveries that are advancing the state of science in genomics and synthetic life. He shares how, in his current work on DNA programming and building synthetic organisms, he is using the building blocks of life to approach society's most pressing problems such as energy and food.