Technology
Countering Coronavirus With Open Social Innovation
Germany’s first government-hosted crisis hackathon offers seven lessons on how to make the most of a messy-but-promising way to kick-start social innovation.
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Taking Action
Nonprofit leaders discuss how their organizations have used technology to better connect with and meet the expectations of their constituents. Part of the Technology for Change series produced by Stanford Social Innovation Review with the support of Salesforce.
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Being a Digital-First Leader
The adoption of new technology requires nonprofit leaders to embrace humility and nurture a flexible and adaptive culture. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
Technology
Normalizing Health-Positive Technology
Health is not a vertical market segment, but a horizontal value, expressed across a company’s full portfolio of products and services.
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Creating a Digital-First Strategy
Nonprofit leaders should think less about the technology and more about the people who will use it and the goals they hope to achieve. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
Philanthropy & Funding
On Becoming a Better Tech Funder
Tech philanthropy is booming, but it doesn’t think nearly enough about the needs of the organizations it hopes to help. Here’s a roundup of best practices and resources that can help tech firms move fast and fix how they fund nonprofits.
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Technology
History’s Tech Lessons
Economist Carl Benedikt Frey offers a refreshingly human-centered analysis of technological progress in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
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Economic Development
Entrepreneurial Empathy
An excerpt from Chasing Innovation explores how innovators can improve their entrepreneurial practices.
Podcast
Technology
Transforming Programs Through Predictive Analytics
A case study of how public higher education institutions are successfully using predictive tools to increase graduation rates and close the achievement and opportunity gaps between low-income and underrepresented minority students and their peers.
Podcast
Technology
Building a More Ethical Blockchain
Blockchain can help with everything from refugees' identities to conflict diamonds, but it must be handled carefully to manage the values embedded within it.