Civic Engagement
The Future of Higher Education Is Social Impact
How can we transform the university research enterprise to enhance its social impact?
Tag: Social Impact
Advocacy
How to Tell Stories About Complex Issues
Stories are the most powerful tool we have for increasing understanding and building engagement with complex issues. Telling them well can drive belief and behavior change.
Impact Investing
A Critical Reflection on Social Impact Bonds
Far from being a win-win financial instrument, SIBs come with significant technical burdens and exemplify an ideological shift in welfare service provision.
Business
Can Corporations Inspire Social Good?
Understanding the strategies needed to catalyze cultural change, as well as the advantages and limits of benefit corporations, are critical in guiding enterprises to inspire social good.
IMPACT INDIA
Circular Social Innovation in India
Social enterprises in India are using restorative and regenerative, circular economy principles to address the deep-seated sustainable development challenges.
Collaboration
Better Business Support for Early-stage Social Enterprises
The time has come to make private sector support of startup social enterprises the expectation, not the exception.
Technology
Digital Currencies and Blockchain in the Social Sector
How decentralized technologies are transforming philanthropy and NGO work.
Philanthropy & Funding
To Change the System, Look Outside the System
Emerging organizations, even if they’re new and small, can help catalyze change in social services.
Human Rights
Can #MeToo Have Lasting Influence?
Advocates and organizers need to think strategically about how to ensure that women are supported as they continue to report sexual violence and their perpetrators are held accountable. To do so, they can look to the science on social norms.
IMPACT INDIA
The Dignity Mind-Set for Scaling Social Change
How some Indian nonprofits are serving many by elevating the humanity of each constituent.