Bringing Social Entrepreneurship into the Classroom

By Kathleen Kelly Janus 4

Why we must leverage hands-on experience and service learning to encourage the next generation of social innovators.

Health

Operating When You Can’t See the Full Picture

By Jeff Cohen

Three principles for solving complex, systemic problems like improving community health.

Parsing Impact Investing’s Big Tent

By Paula Goldman & Lauren Booker 3

As the momentum of impact investing builds, the lack of proper taxonomy poses a significant risk to the movement, especially given recent growth.

Building With, Not For

By Marcia Stepanek 1

Social good technologists working on building a more responsive and effective government need to be more inclusive of the citizens they’re trying to engage—and stop neglecting the government they already have.

Health

Undercover Solutions

By Meghan Williamson 1

Solutions to social problems are often hidden in the most obvious places, masquerading as problems.

Cultivating and Sustaining Generative Teams

By Margaret A. Hawthorne 1

Four practices that can help people establish common intent; sense emerging needs and solutions; and collectively prototype, create, and evolve innovative health models and relationships.

Health Services and Designing for Uncertainty

By Onil Bhattacharyya, Leigh Hayden, & Jennifer Hensel

How a “lean startup” approach can help create an effective community-based program.

Health

Emerging Tools for Community-Driven Evaluations

By Deepthi Welaratna 2

Eight tools for building inclusive, community programs to address health and other social issues.

Community Collaboratives Show Persistence and Progress

By Willa Seldon, Meera Chary, & Bradley Seeman 1

Local US collaboratives are adapting and evolving for long-term success.

Health

Connecting Big-Picture Theories with Community Experience

By Nancy Knopf

Blending practices and theory to improve health outcomes outside the clinical setting.