Cities
Urban Renewal?
The Fairmount Corridor project revealed a central tension in community development: Community-based organizations both enhance and undermine democracy. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Tag: Public Sector
Government
Strategies for Overcoming Systemic Social Failures
Our work in Israel promoting socioeconomic equity for Arab municipalities shows how to improve public service provision and cross-sector collaboration. A Viewpoint from the Fall 2019 issue.
Collaboration
How Researchers Should Partner With Governments
I have been both a government official and a policy researcher in India. I know from experience that researchers need to adjust to the needs of government field staffers to succeed. A Viewpoint from the Fall 2019 issue.
Social Services
Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How to Transition Social Solutions to Government
A framework for nonprofit and private-sector organizations working to transfer the implementation of their solutions to government agencies.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Downside of Social Impact Bonds
After more than three years researching social impact bonds, a filmmaker argues we need to consider the ways they might be doing more harm than good.
IMPACT INDIA
Scaling Health Coverage, Quality, and Innovation Through the Public Sector
Three lessons from a long-term partnership to reach more than 100 million people with better health care in India.
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.
Government
The New Practice of Public Problem Solving
A new class of innovators is advancing the public good by figuring out what people actually need and then testing, improving, and scaling solutions that may already be out there. Here are the four elements of their method.
Social Services
Incarceration and Unemployment
Being imprisoned hurts people’s prospects for employment by taking them out of the job market.