Proprietary data can help improve and save lives, but fully harnessing its potential will require a cultural transformation in the way companies, governments, and other organizations treat and act on data.
Most foundations have endowments with invested assets—but many don’t see themselves as institutional investors. As a result, they are leaving behind some of their influence.
Instead of prescribing higher education as the silver-bullet solution to poverty, we must provide diverse and contextualized pathways to disadvantaged children, enabling them to redefine the dominant narrative of success.
Social innovation educators are responsible for teaching students how to become collaborative community partners. Here's how.
A collective impact effort in Greater Cincinnati offers a useful framework for evaluating community change.
Are social entrepreneurship education programs excluding those who have directly experienced social problems from working on social change solutions?
Three lessons from the field for NGOs pursuing social impact investing.
Faced with a potentially dramatic shift in federal policy, how can policymakers, civic tech leaders, philanthropists, and social innovators reshape their approach to innovation, technology, and data so that the US government is more responsive and connected to the people?
How the next administration can improve global security and advance American interests by strengthening its support for social innovation in global health and development.
Detroit’s experiences hint at a model where philanthropy and business routinely supplement and complement government.
