Excerpts of top books on social innovation
Drawing on extensive field research and surveys, Lasker suggests several ways to make international health volunteering more effective.
This excerpt from the newly released book Delivering on Digital looks at how the government in New South Wales, Australia, has used digital technologies and human-centered design to build a welfare system centered around individual children.
Building on his previous work about the importance of personal traits such as perseverance in student success, Paul Tough focuses Helping Children Succeed on how educators, policymakers, and parents can help children develop those attributes.
The cofounder of AOL looks at the Internet's potential to transform the social sector, on issues from healthcare to food access.
This passage from Global Inequality argues that we should focus less on inequalities between specific identity groups and more on reducing overall wealth gaps.
A new book looks at how to deliver compassionate, connected patient care—and how that approach can create a competitive advantage.
An Everyone Culture argues that organizations do best when they build an environment that encourages constant personal development among their employees.
In Democratic by Design, Gabriel Metcalf looks at how small-scale, self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business can scale up to effect widespread social change.
Squandering America’s Future offers an irreverent critique of the way we rear and educate children today, with profiles of change makers—ingenious gymnasts who keep their balance on the three-legged stool of research, practice, and policy.
Green Giants shares the six factors that have enabled these extraordinary firms to crack the code on profitable, sustainable business and offers a blueprint corporate leaders and entrepreneurs alike can follow.
