School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.
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In the way that people think about end-of-life care, moral and economic motives converge and commingle.
A National Growth Plan Rooted in One State’s Success
Why one successful youth program resisted the urge to expand too quickly.
Measuring Human Progress
A new report on California highlights how human well-being is a more relevant gauge of progress than economic metrics.
The Mantra of Delivery
Four lessons for scaling social impact that arose from curing children’s diarrhea in Bangladesh in the 1980s.
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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.