Equity Along the Paths to and Through College

By Judith Lorimer & LaKisha N. Williams 2

How a New York community center is training college advisors, school counselors, volunteers, and members of community-based organizations to provide high-quality college advising.

What Electric Cars Teach Us About Access to Medicines

By Michael Seo 4

Whether it’s electric vehicles or medicines, achieving the same or better at a lower cost is more realistic than we think.

The Next Phase of Innovative Financing

By Maximilian Martin 1

Why pay-for-success models of humanitarian impact investing offer promise for the future.

Housing for Health

By Joshua Bamberger 8

Nine communities in the United States are finding ways to invest in housing to contain health care costs.

US States Embrace Baby Boxes

By Noël Duan

Several states are adopting the Finnish practice of distributing “baby boxes” to expectant parents—and taking the opportunity to also educate families about safe sleep for infants.

Sharing Is Daring

By Kat McGowan 2

Sage Bionetworks is transforming the culture of biomedical research with open-source methods.

Step by Step

By Sarah Murray

ChildObesity180 is combating the nation’s child obesity epidemic by incubating and promoting the best ideas.

The Impact of Periods

By Leah Spelman & Tara Cookson 2

Promoting menstrual health is critical to women’s economic empowerment around the world.

Pound Foolish

By Nancy E. Roman

Food banks must reject measuring their impact by pounds of food distributed and instead promote access to nutritious food.

Beyond Command-and-Control Campaigns

By Tom Liacas

Many see distributed, directed-network campaigning as the unique domain of small advocacy groups, but the approach has generated impressive results for established organizations as well.