Open Social Innovation
A new approach to tackling social problems orchestrates the participation of multiple stakeholders in the process from generating ideas to scaling solutions.
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The Problem of Social Benefit
Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good. | Open access to this article made possible by Harvard Business School Division of Research and Faculty Development
Building Relationships, Strengthening Neighborhoods
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities show promise. But do we have the patience to wait for them to work?
How Science Philanthropy Can Build Equity
It’s time for science philanthropy and communication to cocreate a new era of partnership with communities of color. | Open-access to this article made possible by the Rita Allen Foundation.
Shifting Philanthropic Power
Last spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic magnified the United States’ racial and class inequities, Teach for America endeavored to put philanthropic power in younger, more racially diverse hands.
Measuring Climate Risk
Climate Risk Labs (CRL), one of the emerging nonprofits tackling the climate crisis, aims to accelerate climate science research and build partnerships that utilize CRL’s data sets to shape future clean energy solutions.
Liberating a Captive Market
Nonprofit start-up Ameelio allows people outside of prisons to send their incarcerated friends and relatives postcards, letters, and photos—for free.
Charting New Futures
New Constellations works with communities to imagine new and better futures, starting with the renewal of Barrow-in-Furness in Great Britain.
Playgrounds for All
Inclusive-design organizations are working to ensure that disabled kids are no longer prevented from playing with their peers.
Bringing Evidence-Based Policy Change to Rural China
Stanford University’s Rural Education Action Program has established a one-of-a-kind research collaborative among Chinese, US, and European universities to improve the lot of rural Chinese families. Its success shows the potential of applying scientific methods to development and forging global partnerships for social impact.