Design Thinking
Think Strategically About Prize Hosting
Social media has made it easy for organizations to launch competitions, but too few consider how such efforts best align with their goals.
Tag: Contests & Prizes
Collaboration
Collaborating Is Hard Work
Cross-sector collaborations can break down when the interests, expectations, and power dynamics of the participants conflict.
Education
Making Kids Into ‘Makers’
The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.
Environment
Innovative Solutions for Climate Change Need More than Money
Climate-change entrepreneurs need funding, but they also need the expertise, networking, and intellectual capital that incubators and foundations can provide.
Design Thinking
Two Paths to Supporting Grassroots Innovation
An innovation experiment in Indonesia yields insights on how international development organizations can effectively foster innovation within the communities they aim to help.
Education
Rethinking Business Plan Competitions
Examining the pitfalls and potential of social business plan competitions, and how educators can redesign them for greater impact.
Foundations
Seeking and Solving
Through an online crowdsourcing platform, one foundation is reaching new types of partners who offer new types of solutions.
Leadership
Why Rewarding Leaders Might Hurt Collaboration
It’s time for the nonprofit sector to create new models for recognizing individual leaders without compromising the collective efforts, movements, and environment of inclusion that they are trying to build.
Cities
Entrepreneurship Upside Down: What If You Start With What You Have?
Takeaways from a municipal prize competition.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Future of Prize Philanthropy
In more and more cases, prize competitions provide recipients with resources to pursue their work even before they complete a proposed project.