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Making Strides in Social Innovation
Social innovation has become a critical tool in China's efforts to tackle its social problems.
Social innovation has become a critical tool in China's efforts to tackle its social problems.
Social enterprises are tapping into Hong Kong's free market culture to tackle social problems.
In South Korea, a core principle of social innovation is finding ways to engage citizens at the grassroots level.
Under Mayor Park Won-soon, the city of Seoul has become a leader in fostering social innovation.
Japan is opening the door to new approaches, such as social enterprise, for solving its pressing social problems.
Florence, a social enterprise, is helping cause major reforms in Japan's childcare system.
Arghyam, a grantmaking foundation, takes a data-driven approach to helping transform India’s water and sanitation systems.
Funders can support positive change by backing proven, replicable interventions and new measurement tools that help draw the connection between services offered and results achieved.
Evidence-based practice has great potential to improve social outcomes, but only if we do a better job marketing and adapting it to address the specific problems at hand.
As funders, providers, and advocates pivot to face a dramatically different funding and political environment, some lessons from history may be instructive.