Education
What US Schools Can Learn From Finland’s Approach to Education
Four strategies for creating a positive school culture that focuses on the whole student and fosters long-term, holistic well-being.
Tag: Europe
Energy
Autobahn Alternative?
The two-person company Solmove has a plan to pave Germany’s roads with small, durable, slip-resistant solar panels. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Review
Technology
History’s Tech Lessons
Economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a refreshingly human-centered analysis of technological progress in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
Social Services
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
Philanthropy & Funding
France’s ‘Soft Loan’ Model Paves Way for Recoverable Grants in US
A French financing tool that enables private investors to help nonprofits scale could offer a roadmap to define recoverable grants in the United States.
Health
Women’s Groups and Funders Respond to Global Gag Rule
Four successful strategies to mitigate the effects of a restrictive funding policy that the Trump administration reinstated.
Human Rights
Life Preservers at Sea
Proactiva Open Arms’ greatest threat to its rescue mission may not be the rough Mediterranean seas but European governments fearful of migrants seeking refuge in their countries.
Government
Laying the Foundations for Sustainable Finance in Europe
The European Commission’s new plan for sustainable finance makes important strides toward connecting the financial industry with social and environmental goals, but social innovators should weigh in.
Governance
Six Ways to Repair Declining Social Trust
We must take proactive and preventive steps to restore trust across government, business, and civic institutions, or societies around the world may be at greater risk of chaos and conflict.
Impact Investing
Social Impact Bonds: More Than One Approach
A look at how social impact bonds differ between projects and geographies, and how those differences impact practical implementation.