Cities
Inclusive Prosperity in an Age of Local Action
Communities cannot and should not wait for external forces to bridge local opportunity divides.
Tag: Human Capital
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
It’s Time to Mobilize Around a New Approach to Educational Assessment
How can we engage vested interests in a move toward the kinds of assessments we increasingly need to measure a breadth of skills, when maintaining the status quo is easier (and profitable)?
Impact Investing
Measure Profit to People—All People
Corporate profitability is too narrow a measure of a company’s financial impact.
Education
Education is Changing. It’s Time Assessment Caught Up
To prepare students for the job markets that will await them, let’s focus on the skills, not the scores.
Impact Investing
Increasing Impact: People and Place at the Center
For impact investing to realize its true potential, we must change the mindset and narrative related to there being a “lack of pipeline” in underserved communities—rural and urban—to a perspective that people in communities create the environments in which outside investments can thrive.
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Economic Development
An Overview of Free Innovation
New findings on the large scale and importance of innovation by consumers fundamentally change how we understand the innovation process.
Foundations
Arriving at 100 Percent for Mission. Now What?
In the coming years, the Heron Foundation will emphasize “connective investing” in US communities, providing financial and other forms of capital. It will continue to seek allies and build connections with those who have muscle and capital market reach.
Education
Redefining Teacher Development to Great Effect in Honduras
A different approach to developing teachers helps rural students access secondary education, and also has an immediate and positive impact on their communities.
Impact Investing
Fueling the Momentum of Impact Investing
Three trends that will drive scale and take impact investing to the next level.