Why Nonprofits Should Operate Commuter Trains
The nonprofit sector has taken on the management of a wide range of heretofore government services. Some portions of mass transit should be next.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Bottom-Up Solutions to Mitigating Climate Change
NGOs, social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and philanthropists need to help slow climate warming.
From Theory to Practice
Advance market commitments can help solve global development problems impaired by market failure.
Transforming Healthcare
Connecting information, applications, data, and people—a report from the Stanford 2013 Healthcare Innovation Summit.
The Power of Technology in Social Innovation Education
A cross-sector initiative aims to develop 21st-century skills in secondary school students—highlights from a recent survey.
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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.