Health
What is The Future of Hospital Community Benefit Programs?
Health systems need to rethink their programs to take full advantage of health reform—and reframe their value to the communities they serve.
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Measuring Social Impact
Most Charities Shouldn’t Evaluate Their Work: Part Two
Who should measure what? Mind the gap.
Social Entrepreneurship
Where Is the BOP Health Care Fortune?
Research shows that healthcare social enterprises are segmenting the BOP and leaving the bottom 50 percent of consumers behind.
Health
Big Business and Healthcare: It’s Not About the Money
A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.
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Embracing the Paradoxes of Innovation
Innovation is necessary to further social progress, and yet the challenges and paradoxes inherent in the endeavor cannot be avoided.
Human Rights
Labor of Love
Ai-jen Poo, cofounder and director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and 2014 McArthur genius grant recipient, is building a movement to improve the lives of 2.5 million US home care workers.
Technology & Design
Texting for Change
A South African foundation is leading the way in creating mobile-phone-based solutions for social change.
Urban Development
Housing the Homeless
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.
Health
Judging Success in Translational Medical Research
Getting promising drug discoveries out of university labs and into the drug pipeline is more difficult than it should be.