Education
Academic-Nonprofit Partnerships Can Pick Up Where Student Innovators Leave Off
Academic-nonprofit, cross-sector partnerships have immense potential to influence long-term development, dissemination, and diffusion of technologies.
Tag: Partnerships
Civil Society
Big Society or Collective Impact?
How are the UK and US addressing the third sector’s next challenges, and where they are failing?
Microfinance
Crowdsourcing Microfinance
The Grameen Foundation’s Bankers Without Borders initiative applies skills-based volunteering to poverty alleviation.
Government
Social Innovation in Washington, D.C.
A look at what’s needed next to create the right policy environment for innovation and results.
Nonprofit Management
Local Empowerment Through Rapid Results
Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.
Environment
Innovations That Address the Last-Mile Distribution Challenge
Social enterprises have taken up the challenge of developing markets for newly designed cook stoves in India.
Podcast
Social Innovations
The Peer Water Exchange: A Platform for Change
Rajesh Shah, a 2010 Tech Award winner, shares his social entrepreneurship model that leverages technology, new media, and peer interaction to solve the water crisis.
Podcast
Design Thinking
Design Thinking for Social Inclusion
Jocelyn Wyatt, social innovation lead at IDEO, describes her organization's efforts to use design thinking, a problem-solving system that is grounded in a client's or costumer's needs.
Podcast
Collaboration
Promoting Philanthropy Through Collaboration
Founder of Taproot Aaron Hurst discusses how the organization started and how it creates its cross-sector collaboration.