What US Schools Can Learn From Finland’s Approach to Education
Four strategies for creating a positive school culture that focuses on the whole student and fosters long-term, holistic well-being.
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Philanthropy for the Women’s Movement, Not Just ‘Empowerment’
The philanthropic community’s preoccupation with impact and the short-term projects that deliver measurable outcomes can distract us from what really works.
Using Measurement to Manage Impact
How investors can generate deeper insights into social and environmental impact while bringing concrete business benefits to investees.
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Social-Symbolic Work and Social Innovation
An excerpt from Constructing Organizational Life examines self work, organization work, and institutional work within the context of social innovation.
The Evolving Promise of Pay for Success
Despite growing pains, the pay for success funding model is finding renewed success in communities across the United States and is primed to evolve into an ever-more-powerful tool for social change.
The Next Step for Human-Centered Design in Global Public Health
As human-centered design in global public health enters its adolescence, we offer a guide to help practitioners break through their misperceptions of people's needs to prescribe real solutions.
Communicating Complexity in the Humanitarian Sector
By relying on academic research, organizations can understand where their communications will have the most impact. The final article in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
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The Neuroscience of Creativity
An excerpt from Tara Swart’s The Source explains how the brain’s ability to adapt can allow for better decision-making for social good.
Lessons From India on Scaling Up Market-Based Solutions
Businesses straddling the worlds of commerce and development offer the chance to address poverty at scale, but very few succeed. To improve them in India and elsewhere, investors and practitioners should note four common challenges and ask five simple questions.
Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism
At a time when division seems like the only thing we all have in common, two “relational activists” describe how building person-to-person connections can keep us from being paralyzed by recalcitrant and complex social problems.