Education
Off the Beaten Path
An excerpt from Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive.
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Book Excerpts
Excerpts of top books on social innovation
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference
Great ideas for social impact are dying on the vine because organizations lack the tools they need to grow. With the right strategies in place, any nonprofit can lay the foundation for success.
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Leadership
Leading from Within: Conscious Social Change and Mindfulness for Social Innovation
How mindfulness can help us become more effective social change leaders.
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Arts & Culture
Happy Accidents: The Transformative Power of “Yes, And” at Work and in Life
What an improv comedy troupe's experience weathering the financial crisis can teach other organizations about resilience.
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Social Enterprise
Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit and Capital Markets
How the law can help social entrepreneurs and mission-committed investors build trust around their commitment to social good.
Book Reviews
Reviews of top books on social innovation
Economic Development
Money for Nothing
In Fair Shot, Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes makes the case for universal basic income.
Civic Engagement
Road Map to a New World
In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms argue that power and influence are being driven by a new participatory and peer-driven paradigm.
Economic Development
Rethinking Development Work
Practitioners and funders in global development need less idealism and more pragmatism, Adam D. Kiš argues in The Development Trap.
Advocacy
Winning Hearts and Minds
The road to social change begins with personal connection and human emotion, Leslie Crutchfield writes in How Change Happens.