Excerpts of top books on social innovation
How a Venezuelan model of music education is bringing a sense of inclusion to children in immigrant communities in Denmark—and around the world.
How can the public sector create a culture that's friendly to human-centered design?
A dialogue about how nonprofits can do a better job integrating design thinking into their work.
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.
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.
