Collaboration
Changing the Game
A collaboration between Nike and the Tucker Center taught us about how to keep girls in sports and how to get more from cross-sector partnerships.
Tag: Mobile Technology
Innovative ways to use cell phones and other mobile devices for social good
Excerpt
Technology
Rare Amphibian
An excerpt from Strong Connections on digitally powering grassroots innovation.
sponsored
Building the Public Interest Technology Infrastructure of the Future
How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology.
Human Rights
Liberation Technology
LibertApp is proving how technology can be used to stop human trafficking and save lives.
Civic Engagement
Healing Our Health System, One Vote at a Time
How the work of bringing voter registration kiosks into emergency rooms has become more urgent—and more difficult—during the COVID-19 pandemic, and also expanded in scope. Part of a series on civil society's response to the pandemic.
Impact Investing
A Surgical Road Map for Global Prosperity
Massive investment in surgical care is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and improving health equity. The surgical device industry should take the lead. Open access to this article is made possible by Harvard Medical School.
Technology
Streamlining Emergency Access
Safe Shelter Collaborative dramatically reduces the time that survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking have to wait to secure safe accommodation. A Field Report from the Summer 2019 issue.
Philanthropy & Funding
China’s New Model of Blockchain-Driven Philanthropy
Blockchain has done more than simply enable Chinese social entrepreneurs to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, and fundraising of the country’s charitable causes. It has helped launch a more decentralized and autonomous philanthropic sector.
Civic Engagement
Funders Can Bolster Democracy by Supporting Census Tech
Local governments and philanthropy are missing out on one of the biggest opportunities to positively affect the census: supporting the application of modern technology to increase the chances of a more complete count.
IMPACT INDIA
For More Gender Equity in India’s Workforce, More Women Must Get Online
To increase Indian women's participation in the workforce of an increasingly digital world, more of them must obtain access to the internet through cellphones and other technologies.