Advocacy
Framing for Social Change
How we frame social issues profoundly influences our understanding of them, and how we think and talk about solutions.
Tag: Health
Health
The Emerging World of Online Health Communities
Platforms that provide a way for patients, caregivers, and health care staff to share stories and develop solutions across the health system are disrupting traditional hierarchies in medicine.
Health
International Development Doesn’t Care About Patient Privacy
Global health has brushed aside human dignity—it’s time to place patients at the core.
Health
Collective Impact for Health and Wellbeing
A case study on igniting a social movement and engaging an entire community in creating a culture that supports health and wellbeing.
Economic Development
Intelligent Mobility as a Means to Improve Health Equity
Public and private leaders should collaborate to promote health amenities in different neighborhoods—enabling prospective residents to make relocation decisions that could improve their quality of life.
Social Enterprise
Early-stage Entrepreneurs Can Drive New Social Movements
Three unique roles social entrepreneurs can play in driving community action and civic change.
Foundations
A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah
The former USAID administrator, and president of one of the United States’ largest foundations, reflects on the role of philanthropy in times of austerity and the greatest challenges Rockefeller is undertaking both domestically and abroad.
Measurement & Evaluation
Can Measures Change the World?
Our ability to track and report is accelerating, resulting in a proliferation of measures. It’s time to focus more effort on understanding how those measures can be used to change complex social systems.
Collaboration
Beyond the Backbone
Three alternatives to the backbone organization—a fundamental aspect of collective impact efforts—that can help ground collaborations focused on systemic change.