Breaking the Health Care Cost Trend with Innovative Service Delivery
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Student Retention App
A new Facebook app helps incoming freshmen connect—but within the closed community of their college.
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Opportunities in Mobile Health
The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.
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Government 2.0
Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.
A New Tool for Digital Storytelling
There’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to advocate for the change they want.
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Solving Infant Mortality with Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.
Antipoverty Apps
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.
The Challenge of Organizational Learning
A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
Tap the Crowd with iStart
Have you thought about running a contest or crowdsourcing ideas for your organization or community group?
Banking Beyond Branches: An Interim Report Card
There is a need to develop simplified paths for mobile operators and banks alike to get on the inexorable road to banking beyond branches.