Small Business Today, Social Enterprise Tomorrow
Communities and the social sector both stand to gain when nonprofits acquire existing for-profits.
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Let the Man Do His Job!
It’s hard to be a government minister in a country where resources are scarce. Don’t make it worse.
Supporting Higher Education for Refugees
A four-part framework for increasing young refugees’ access to tertiary education.
Giving Your Genius: A New Approach to Corporate Philanthropy
When companies deploy the same processes they use to create commercial value to create philanthropic value, they can truly help charities achieve their social missions.
Paying Schools for Success
Advocates of US charter schools argue their model promotes innovation in the classroom. Critics worry that investors’ interests usurp those of students. Pay-for-success financing can help bridge that divide.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
The Missing Link in School Reform
American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
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.
A Better Education for All During—and After—the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and its partners shows how to help children learn amid erratic access to schools during a pandemic, and how those solutions may make progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring a quality education for all by 2030.
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.