Food
A Fresh Approach to Food Stamps
In some places, users of the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can supplement their diet via community supported agriculture.
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Innovations in farming and agronomy that promote sustainability and advance social good
Impact Investing
Lasting Impact: Investing via Open Holding Companies
We need to change the structure through which we make impact investments for inclusive, fully realized value.
Impact Investing
Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself
Real assets can have real environmental impact and are ideal investments for young people with new wealth.
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Social Innovation and Resilience: How One Enhances the Other
Social innovations must take into account the complexity of social problems and foster solutions resilient enough to adapt and survive.
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Innovate and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act
Organizations need the ability to both scale up successful innovations and create new ones, even those that challenge the status quo.
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Tapping the Entrepreneurial Potential of Grassroots Innovation
Instead of treating poor people as a sink of public aid and assistance, we should view them as a source of new ideas and innovations.
Environment
Bottom-Up Solutions to Mitigating Climate Change
NGOs, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and philanthropists need to help slow climate warming.
Measuring Social Impact
Measuring to Improve vs. Improving Measurement
From Skoll World Forum 2013: Will new measurement tools such as “big data” be a big distraction or a big opportunity?
Socially Responsible Business
The Future of Corporate Engagement in the Developing World
Five takeaways from this year’s International Corporate Volunteerism Conference.
Technology & Design
Designing for the Science of Service Delivery
A case study on using design thinking to solve governance bottlenecks in Jamaica.