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Defining Evidence Down
With evidence-based policy, we need to acknowledge that some evidence is more valid than others. Pretending all evidence is equal will only preserve the status quo.
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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.
Are You Sure You Should Be Launching Another Partnership?
For funders and founders thinking about launching a multi-stakeholder initiative for social impact, the question of "whether" is just as important as "how."
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.
Funding Revolutions in Pay-for-Success
A public revolving fund could enable the benefits of pay-for-success while overcoming traditional concerns of privatization and scaling.
Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations
New types of civil society organizations are powerfully and successfully using technology to campaign online and offline for social, economic, and environmental change.
Cracking the Code of Impact Investing
The creation of “impact classes” as a classification system has the potential to address a number of stubborn barriers in impact investing.
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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.
Millennials and Hybrid Legal Structures Are Here to Stay
While the connection between Millennials and hybrid legal structures isn’t obvious, these two forces of social innovation share common history, values, and futures.