A Question of Outcomes
For more and more social change efforts, the key to success lies in clearly defining the desired results for beneficiaries.
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Innovations in public services that promote equity and opportunity (more)
Judging “Poor” Choices
Disapproval of welfare recipients who use their benefits to buy “ethical” but costly items is widespread.
Hidden Talent: How Smart Companies Are Tapping Into Unemployed Youth
Refining the raw talent of the 5.5 million young Americans out of work and out of school provides compelling opportunities for companies, youth, and society—a rare trifecta—that a growing number of corporate leaders are betting on.
After the One Child Policy
A pilot project in China aims to give the country’s family-planning agency a new mission: supporting early child development.
Social Impact Bonding
In Belgium, leaders of a nonprofit are using a pay-for-success mechanism to fund a program for young migrant job seekers.
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Siphoning Off the Safety Net
How social services agencies are squeezing revenue from the poor and vulnerable people they’re meant to serve.
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Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government
This excerpt from the newly released book Delivering on Digital looks at how the government in New South Wales, Australia, has used digital technologies and human-centered design to build a welfare system centered around individual children.
On the Brink—Providers Under Pressure
The collapse of New York’s largest nonprofit human services agency is an urgent reminder of the need for funding reform.
Charity Versus Innovation
The response by US foundations to federal welfare reform in the 1990s illuminates their role in policy development.
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Using Fair Housing to Achieve Health Equity
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.