Social Impact by Design
This book offers useful ideas for integrating design thinking into a work environment but could provide more specific guidelines for the design process itself.
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Design Thinking Innovations in solution-based design techniques that address social problems
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Creating a Cross Sector Leadership Network
The James Irvine Foundation’s New Leadership Network provides lessons about how to foster civic innovation.
Spotting the Patterns: 2017 Trends in Design Thinking
Creative leaders and innovators are thinking about design thinking in more mature ways. Moving away from a sole emphasis on language and learning, they are increasingly focusing on questions of application, ownership, and impact.
Five SSIR Articles for U.N. Week
A reading list of our favorite articles on the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Motivations Behind Giving
Charitable appeals that address a wealthy person’s agency are more effective.
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design
Both human-centered and systems-thinking methods fit within an effective design approach, and can work in conjunction to address social challenges.
Why Social Innovators Need Design Thinking
Design is a process especially suited to divergent thinking—the exploration of new choices and alternative solutions.
Convening by Design
Principles and tactics for creating strategic convenings that foster meaningful interaction and outcomes.
The Ethics of Innovation
An ethical framework can bridge the worlds of startup technology and international development to strengthen cross-sector innovation in the social sector.