Health
Restoring Lost Voices
Syrinx is an AI-driven wearable device that returns human speech and, with it, human dignity.
Design Thinking - Most Popular
Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems (more)
Measurement & Evaluation
Are Your Data Visualizations Racist?
Three ways to be more equitable and inclusive with your data and data visualizations.
Excerpt
Leadership
Playful Critique
An excerpt from Creative Acts for Curious People on making judgments more deliberate
Scaling
Efficacy Before Scale
To invest in and grow promising organizations and programs in a way that promotes efficacy prior to significant scaling and expansion, there are three pathways to follow: piloting, testing, and iterating.
Economic Development
The Problem of Social Benefit
Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Building Relationships, Strengthening Neighborhoods
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities show promise. But do we have the patience to wait for them to work?
Civic Engagement
Charting New Futures
New Constellations works with communities to imagine new and better futures, starting with the renewal of Barrow-in-Furness in Great Britain.
Design Thinking
Playgrounds for All
Inclusive-design organizations are working to ensure that disabled kids are no longer prevented from playing with their peers.
Design Thinking
An Insightful Collaboration
The social enterprise Smart Focus grounds their solutions to China’s rural vision-care crisis in research.
Education
There’s No Formula for Taking Sensitive Trainings Remote
While the pandemic has clarified some best practices for online trainings, centering participants requires a creative approach, a deep understanding of participants’ needs, and thoughtful work to be responsive and flexible.