Energy
Renewable Energy Won’t Change the World
Changing the composition of the world’s energy supply is important, but it’s only half the battle against climate change.
Tag: Government Programs
Innovations in federal, state, and local government programs
Business
The Business of Biodiversity
The benefits of environmental conservation and restoration reach far and wide, and across all sectors. More businesses need to realize the positive effects biodiversity has on their bottom line—and more governments need to pass legislation that protects biodiversity.
Education
Student Debt: An Opportunity and a Challenge for the Nonprofit Workforce
Student debt is hurting recruitment, retention, and diversity in the nonprofit workforce, but a Federal program is poised to help.
Education
Three Lessons for Impact Investing Education Programs
Academic institutions can help build the impact investing field by teaching students a fuller suite of skills, clarifying the range of career paths open to them, and developing a better theoretical and practical knowledge base.
Economic Development
Facts Over Factions
How technology and data can form the basis for common-sense, bi-partisan policy reforms amid new uncertainties.
Government
Structuring Innovation in the Next Administration
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?
Health
A Letter to the President-Elect
How the next administration can improve global security and advance American interests by strengthening its support for social innovation in global health and development.
Civic Engagement
The Curb-Cut Effect
Laws and programs designed to benefit vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or people of color, often end up benefiting all of society.
Measurement & Evaluation
A Question of Outcomes
For more and more social change efforts, the key to success lies in clearly defining the desired results for beneficiaries.