Opening Prison Doors
We must create educational opportunities to reduce recidivism among prison inmates and empower them to lead successful lives post incarceration.
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A Question of Outcomes
For more and more social change efforts, the key to success lies in clearly defining the desired results for beneficiaries.
Conflict Aid Goes “Lean”
Iterative design methods are essential to development work—even (or especially) in regions marked by war and violence.
Seeking and Solving
Through an online crowdsourcing platform, one foundation is reaching new types of partners who offer new types of solutions.
Good to the Last Mile
Solving the problem of rural distribution in the developing world starts with following the time-honored model of local traders.
Accelerating “What Works”
There is an urgent need to expand the infrastructure for results-based policymaking at all levels of the US government.
After the One Child Policy
A pilot project in China aims to give the country’s family-planning agency a new mission: supporting early child development.
Let’s Redraw the Map
Through a new initiative, Ashoka hopes to make the field of US social entrepreneurship more diverse, geographically and otherwise.
Social Impact Bonding
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
A Big New Market?
Five years after the launch of Big Society Capital, its first CEO takes stock of what the organization has (and hasn’t) achieved.