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Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving
Wicked Problems explores characteristics of and approaches to today's most complex social issues.
Toward Entrepreneurial Universities for the 21st Century
What are public research institutions doing—or what should they do—to fulfill their compact with the citizens of their states?
Filming Alternative Energy
Two documentaries explore the move from fossil fuels.
Calling for a Global Design Service Corps
Only a sliver of the world’s population currently benefits from well-designed spaces in which to live their best lives.
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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.