Technology
Wearing It Well (for Good)
With Kid Power, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF is using technology to leverage children’s desire to help other children.
Tag: Food Security
Food
More Than a Meal
Technical ingenuity and private funding enable Akshaya Patra to serve hot, healthy lunches to 1.4 million Indian children every day.
Food
A Healthy Dose of Skepticism
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs and no evidence that their commercialization has been beneficial to society as a whole; until there is, it is prudent to just say no.
Impact Investing
Impact Bonds: A Scalable Solution to Sustainable Fisheries?
We need to move beyond donor funding and mobilize private capital to finance performance-based conservation.
Economic Development
Cultivating a Neglected Field
Seven lending organizations are teaming up to meet the large-scale needs of smallholder farms in the developing world.
Food
Approaching Food Waste from All Sides
New technology-enabled solutions are trying to match the scale of food recovery to the scale of industrial food distribution.
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Social Entrepreneurship
The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving our Most Complex Challenges
In The Social Labs Revolution, Zaid Hassan argues in favor of an experimental, rather than a planning-based, approach to today's challenges.
Measurement & Evaluation
Big Data for Social Innovation
Nonprofits lag behind business and science in using big data effectively.
Measuring Social Impact
Big Impact vs. Big Promises
Many charities claim more impact than cash transfers. How many deliver?