Human Rights

A Study in Risk and Restraint

By Courtney E. Martin

Lessons for entrepreneurs abound in the new biography on Molly Melching’s work.

Podcast

Nonprofits

A Crash Course on Creativity

Featuring Tina Seelig

Stanford Professor Tina Seelig discusses how to unlock creative genius through a set of tools and conditions we each have in our control—our “innovation engine.”

Technology & Design

Second Life’s Second Life for Social Innovation

By Jody Turner & Donna Davis

Researchers explore the effects of virtual embodiment among people with Parkinson’s disease.

Excerpt

Business

Decisive

By Chip Heath & Dan Heath 1

In their latest book, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch explore how to make better choices in life and work.

Nonprofit Management

Stop Asking and Start Listening

By Thaler Pekar 1

Leadership and communication: what we can learn from not speaking.

Socially Responsible Business

Unifying Europe

By Adrienne Day

The nonprofit Erste Foundation is an engine behind the for-profit Erste Group as well as its largest shareholder.

Business

Impact Entrepreneurship in Latin America

By Neela Pal 2

A report from Agora Partnerships’ 2013 Entrepreneur Retreat.

Nonprofit Management

Certainty Versus Confidence

By Thaler Pekar 14

Leaders of social change can benefit from making the distinction.

Philanthropy

The Art of Love in Philanthropy

By Peter Karoff 5

Sublime philanthropy demands an emotional investment as much as it demands economic and process investment.

Design Thinking

Turning Design Thinking to Design Doing

By Glenn Fajardo, John Rehm, & Kal Joffres 13

Getting started: insights from experiments in Southeast Asia.