Health
Design or Disrupt?
The Mayo Clinic achieves patient care improvements through innovation that is incremental rather than disruptive.
Review
Tag: Aging
Social Enterprise
Social Enterprises: Serving “Extreme” Customers
Mainstream companies are just starting to pay attention to consumers with nonstandard preferences and needs; social enterprises have sought to serve these customers for years.
Nonprofit Management
Transforming Society’s View of Retirement
A rapidly growing group of individuals are redefining their post-midlife years in ways that hold great potential for themselves and society. SSIR x Bridgespan series.
Technology & Design
Information Wants to Find People
The shift in consumer expectations and information-seeking behavior is demanding a response from social sector organizations.
Civil Society
Bridging the Generations
Older people and foster families are forming mutually supportive communities, with help from a group called Generations of Hope.
Nonprofits
Creating a Common Language for Cross-sector Collaboration
A framework for visualizing problems and a common language for talking about them can make all the difference.
Measuring Social Impact
Most Charities Shouldn’t Evaluate Their Work: Part Two
Who should measure what? Mind the gap.
Human Rights
Labor of Love
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.
Government
New Option for Retirees
State-sponsored pensions for private sector employees aim to stem US retirement insecurity.