Impact Investing
Keeping it Real
Simon's book warns against short-sighted impact investing that brings more benefit to investors than to the communities it supposedly supports.
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Tag: Global Issues
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Fighting Social Exclusion, One Encounter at a Time
Exeko seeks to better understand social, cultural, and intellectual exclusion and work to eliminate it.
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Building a Canadian Social Finance Fund
Government and its partners can achieve transformative change by taking a big leap.
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Canada and the Sustainable Development Goals
What is the role of community-based innovation in a rapidly changing world?
Health
China’s Emerging Role in Social Innovation for Global Good
Growing support for multilateral development and expanding R&D capacity make China increasingly important in the quest to advance global health.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics
A dialogue with University of Michigan professor Dean Yang on what we can—and can't—learn from randomized controlled trials.
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Technology
The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
A venture capitalist argues that the liberal arts are at the heart of the best technology.
Education
Learning Progressions: Road Maps for 21st-Century Students—and Teachers
To equip today’s students for the future, we need to understand the fundamental building blocks of complex skills, and apply that understanding to teaching practices and assessments.
Education
Systems Change in Education: It Begins With Us
To make education systems more adaptive, innovative, collaborative, and empathic, we as change leaders must first model these characteristics ourselves.
Social Enterprise
Market-Oriented and Mission-Focused: Social Enterprises Around the Globe
Social enterprises contribute significantly to the economy, and simultaneously are fiercely social mission-driven.