Advocating an End to the Death Penalty
The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all.
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How Can We Advance Health Equity?
Faith Mitchell of Grantmakers In Health, Dr. Robert Ross of The California Endowment, and Nick Tilsen of the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation talk about how their organizations are addressing health gaps among different communities.
How Green Bonds Will Become Mainstream
What needs to happen before environmentally friendly investments can become an established part of the market?
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Education and the Commercial Mindset
A chief reason for Finnish schools' much-touted success is that, ironically, they have done a better job implementing core business strategies than many explicitly market-based educational models.
Data as a Means, Not an End: A Brief Case Study
How the education nonprofit City Year tackled “measurement drift” by reorienting its measurement activities around one simple premise: Data should support better decision-making.
Fortifying Health Care Startups in the Middle East and North Africa
A cohort of startups is building new, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that can help enhance health care knowledge and mitigate medical risks throughout the region.
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What Foundations Can Do to Address Inequality
Stanford's Rob Reich moderates a panel with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and Craig Newmark of Craigslist.
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.
Redesigning American High Schools for the 21st Century
It’s time to boldly reimagine the high-school experience using the power of human-centered design, the latest adolescent neuroscience, and purpose learning.