This series, sponsored by the Center for Impact Sciences at the University of Chicago, is an exploration of the cutting edge of data and measurement: how new tools, systems, and technologies are making it possible to look forward and predict impact.
An excerpt from Another World Is Possible on methods for improving our social imagination.
How our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it.
COVID-19 vaccine efforts showed how successfully centering communities can overcome mistrust and access barriers.
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.
If humanity is to survive the climate crisis, we must manage a just and orderly transition away from fossil fuels. The correct models for this resolution are triage, euthanasia, and hospice.
Open-access to this article made possible by University of Michigan.
Social impact networks inevitably face moments of existential crisis. But networks can prepare for them by asking the right questions.
A collaborative of foundations and nonprofits took action to mitigate the harms resulting from a series of unfortunate and nefarious events that jeopardized the accuracy of the latest census. Here’s how they did it—and how their lessons can now be used in service of the next decennial.
Telemedicine allows people the lifesaving care that they need after the fall of Roe.
