Big Business and Healthcare: It’s Not About the Money
A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.
Global Issues - Most Popular
Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health (more)
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Social Innovation and Resilience: How One Enhances the Other
Social innovations must take into account the complexity of social problems and foster solutions resilient enough to adapt and survive.
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Social Innovation Creates Prosperous Societies
The old paradigm of government aid is inadequate. What's needed are innovative solutions that foster sustainable economic growth.
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Tapping the Entrepreneurial Potential of Grassroots Innovation
Instead of treating poor people as a sink of public aid and assistance, we should view them as a source of new ideas and innovations.
Creating a Sunny World
Solnechny Mir (Our Sunny World) is a Russian rehabilitation center that hosts more than 250 children and their families each week.
Labor of Love
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.
Mobilizing the Masses
The Liberty Hill Foundation concentrates on helping community activists create lasting change in Los Angeles.
Keeping Kids in School
With hard data and soft skills, Communities in Schools fine-tunes its model to reduce dropout rates.
Texting for Change
A South African foundation is leading the way in creating mobile-phone-based solutions for social change.
Housing the Homeless
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.