Humanitarian Relief
The Contemplative-Based Resilience Project is using meditation to help aid workers stave off burnout.
Social Services - Most Popular
Innovations in public services that promote equity and opportunity (more)
Native Wisdom Is Revolutionizing Health Care
Southcentral Foundation has vastly improved Alaska Native welfare while saving on costs by using traditional healing practices.
Restorative Justice: The World I Want
A group of inmates is benefitting from a practice that’s badly needed both within and beyond prison walls.
Review
Is Housing a Human Right?
Has capitalism failed to provide adequate housing, and if so, where do we go from here?
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Solving Japan’s Childcare Problem
Florence, a social enterprise, is helping cause major reforms in Japan's childcare system.
Too Many Welfare Orgs?
While communities can benefit from the entry of more welfare nonprofits, there is a point after which greater numbers are counterproductive.
Breaking the Double Barrier of Poverty
Instead of prescribing higher education as the silver-bullet solution to poverty, we must provide diverse and contextualized pathways to disadvantaged children, enabling them to redefine the dominant narrative of success.
Bringing Together Business and Social Change: Not for the Faint of Heart
Launching social enterprises with national reach holds great promise, but there’s no easy route to success—a look at four lessons from the field.
Measurement & Evaluation
Moving From Pass/Fail to Continuous Progress
It’s hard to fully understand the effects of interventions that aim to address several life challenges at once. But it can help to transition from all-or-nothing assessments to more incremental measures.
Measuring Outcomes to Improve Social Services
Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.