Combatting the Psychology of Bias
How our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it.
How our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it.
COVID-19 vaccine efforts showed how successfully centering communities can overcome mistrust and access barriers.
The ethical pause—a short period of reflection and inquiry about a project’s ethical implications and the team’s approach to the work—helps ensure teams ask the right questions and address issues of inequity and access in the services they develop.
Through intentional investments and informed divestments, investors, philanthropists, and foundations can support environmentally conscious, community-centered, and reparative approaches to economic and technological change.
Social impact networks inevitably face moments of existential crisis. But networks can prepare for them by asking the right questions.
A collaborative of foundations and nonprofits took action to mitigate the harms resulting from a series of unfortunate and nefarious events that jeopardized the accuracy of the latest census. Here’s how they did it—and how their lessons can now be used in service of the next decennial.
A new cancer-detecting smart bra raises awareness about breast cancer and breast health in sub-Saharan Africa.
A social franchise offers business education and mentorship to help the world’s poorest workers maximize their earning potential.
Pregnancy and maternity health-care apps educate expectant and new parents to improve health outcomes for mothers and children in Nigeria and beyond.
Before we rush back into large in-person gatherings, we should strategize about how we can make them more impactful.