Rethinking Business Plan Competitions
Examining the pitfalls and potential of social business plan competitions, and how educators can redesign them for greater impact.
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Facts Over Factions
How technology and data can form the basis for common-sense, bi-partisan policy reforms amid new uncertainties.
From Family Data to Neighborhood Outcomes
By offering better early support for struggling families, child welfare services can reduce the need for more serious interventions down the line and improve the wellbeing of whole neighborhoods.
Critical Competences for Social Impact Leaders
Five opportunities for educators to more clearly connect classic entrepreneurial skills to the social impact field and to foster skills that can serve a range of social impact leadership roles.
Using Technology to Teach the Art of Asking Questions
Technological innovations have the potential to transform education, but only if they encourage a more active learning environment that fosters critical thinking.
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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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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 Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.