Data as a Means, Not an End: A Brief Case Study
How the education nonprofit City Year tackled “measurement drift” by reorienting its measurement activities around one simple premise: Data should support better decision-making.
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Fortifying Health Care Startups in the Middle East and North Africa
A cohort of startups is building new, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that can help enhance health care knowledge and mitigate medical risks throughout the region.
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What Foundations Can Do to Address Inequality
Stanford's Rob Reich moderates a panel with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker and Craig Newmark of Craigslist.
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.
Redesigning American High Schools for the 21st Century
It’s time to boldly reimagine the high-school experience using the power of human-centered design, the latest adolescent neuroscience, and purpose learning.
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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.