Practical Advice Tips for social change leaders

Operating When You Can’t See the Full Picture

By Jeff Cohen

Three principles for solving complex, systemic problems like improving community health.

Cultivating and Sustaining Generative Teams

By Margaret A. Hawthorne 1

Four practices that can help people establish common intent; sense emerging needs and solutions; and collectively prototype, create, and evolve innovative health models and relationships.

Four Learning Principles for the Social Sector

By Alexander Saint-Amand 1

Creative solutions to common learning challenges that social innovators face.

Emerging Tools for Community-Driven Evaluations

By Deepthi Welaratna 2

Eight tools for building inclusive, community programs to address health and other social issues.

A “Watch-Out” for Private Foundations Offering Prizes

By Susan L. Abbott & Alyssa C. Fitzgerald

No-strings-attached prizes incentivize innovation, but private foundations need to structure them carefully to avoid prohibitive penalty taxes.