Tackling the Housing Crisis and Bridging Generational Divides Through Home-Sharing
Intergenerational home-sharing provides younger adults with affordable housing and older adults with needed income and a way to age in place.
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Overcoming Age Segregation
How social innovation can reshape a century of generational separation in the United States, and bring together the talents of young and old to improve life for all.
Lessons From Journalists on Building Trust With Local Communities During Crises
Any organization tasked with getting critical information to local communities—whether responding to a crisis like the pandemic or trying to challenge social injustices—needs a strategy for making sure their message is believed. Journalism offers insight into building trust as people's wariness threatens the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.
Precision Fishing
SmartCatch deploys digital technology to help make the world’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable.
The Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health
Rick Doblin launched the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies in 1986 to research and advocate for the use of LSD, magic mushrooms, and Ecstasy to treat mental illness. After more than three decades of labor, he has found his moment.
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What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
Burnout From an Organizational Perspective
Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.
The Upside of Nonprofit Burnout
Two years ago I quit my nonprofit CEO job. I’ve just had the two most productive years of my career.