Skoll World Forum 2010 Kicks Off in Oxford
The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship focuses on “catalyzing collaboration for social change.”
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Clouds and InfoStructure
Cloud-based tools encourage greater collaboration, allowing us to re-imagine problems and develop new solutions to tackle social problems.
Sustainable Living: Becoming an Unconsumer
The recent recession has led to a change in how consumers buy and sell, a new trend called unconsumption.
Gaming for Good
The explosion of online gaming offers opportunities to use game mechanics to create social good.
The Water Cycle with a Human Twist
The urban water supply cycle faces an exciting opportunity—large-scale conversion of sewage waste into drinkable water.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
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.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.