Social Enterprise
Let’s Redraw the Map
Through a new initiative, Ashoka hopes to make the field of US social entrepreneurship more diverse, geographically and otherwise.
Tag: Human Capital
Organizational Development
New Tools for Measuring and Improving Employee Engagement
The number of companies offering employee engagement and happiness surveys, feedback tools, pulse checks, and culture assessments is exploding. How are social sector organizations using them?
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Design Thinking
Designers’ Evolving Roles in Government
How can the public sector create a culture that's friendly to human-centered design?
Organizational Development
Building Inclusion from the Inside-Out: A Brief Case Study
The philanthropic sector believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to any social mission, but how can organizations ensure that their own people and processes reflect those values?
Health
Fortifying Health Care Startups in the Middle East and North Africa
A cohort of startups is building new, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that can help enhance health care knowledge and mitigate medical risks throughout the region.
Cities
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.
Collaboration
More Power, Less Cohesion
People who rise within a hierarchy often develop qualities that make it hard for them work together in groups.
Organizational Development
Policies, Processes, and Protocols: Three Keys to Building a Diverse Workplace
We need new tools to address institutional bias, and to set a new standard for diversity and inclusion at social sector organizations.
Business
Doing Business in Africa: Where Strategy Meets Social Investment
Five strategic principles for businesses thinking about entering a new market.
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Organizational Development
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
An Everyone Culture argues that organizations do best when they build an environment that encourages constant personal development among their employees.