Health
Undercover Solutions
Solutions to social problems are often hidden in the most obvious places, masquerading as problems.
Tag: Sharing Economy
Economic Development
The Time Bank Solution
For decades, time banking has been a relatively small-scale movement. But signs are emerging that it may be an idea whose time has come.
Philanthropy
Disruption for Good
Rapid advances in technology are changing philanthropy in fundamental ways—making it potentially more rational, effective, collaborative, transparent, and democratic.
Business
The Sharing Economy, Through a Broader Lens
The sharing economy offers opportunities for emerging markets, megacities, and the rising middle class, but we need more collaboration across sectors—and the impact investment community.
Business
Fifty Shades of Sharing. Or at Least Two.
Understanding the division within the sharing economy is an essential step toward engaging the values-driven segment of that economy with our social change missions.
Review
Economic Development
No Value
A "big think" look at the future of capitalism fails to reckon with the factors that make capitalism so resilient.
Nonprofits
Shifts in Thinking to Achieve Transformative Scale
We need to shift from a focus on production to impact, and leverage principles of platforms, networks, community, and co-creation.
Government
A Sharing Economy Cliffhanger: What Will Governments Do?
Earlier this month, a group backed by companies including Airbnb and Taskrabbit began urging users to petition for changes in regulation—will politicians uphold the rules or loosen them? Or is there is a third option?
Socially Responsible Business
Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector.
Urban Development
Bike-Sharing Goes Small
Local bike-lending arrangements offer an alternative to bigger, more complex bike-sharing systems.