Make It Personal
The rapid spread of social media has catapulted the possibilities and scale of relationship-building into the stratosphere.
Global Issues - Articles
Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health (more)
Mobile Money: A Game Changer for Financial Inclusion
Imagine if everyone who had a cell phone could also have access to financial services, and could save and send money safely, regardless of location.
Will the FCC’s Digital Literacy Corps become a 21st Century Peace Corps? Maybe.
Will this Digital Literacy Corps be a 21st Century Peace Corps?
Social Innovation Needs Design, and Design Needs Social Innovation
Social innovation needs people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose. It needs designers.
Unexpected Innovation Lessons from the Do Lectures
Innovation doesn’t happen only in gleaming purpose-built labs with groups of geniuses hi-fiving each other as they surf the waves of change.
Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting
Don't be fooled into thinking strategies for online engagement can be cut and pasted from one platform to the next.
Podcast
Cross-Sector Social Innovation
Buzz Thompson identifies models of collaboration across areas of expertise that can help us solve complex societal issues.
Impact Investing: What Exactly Is New?
A veteran of the microfinance industry looks at impact investing through the lenses of history, language, and psychology.
Diversity Opportunities
New research finds that some companies are increasingly pro-diversity and others lag well behind.
Open Source for Humanitarian Action
Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.