Three Strategies for Closing the Education-to-Employment Gap
A look at how educators, employers, and others can help millions unemployed and under-employed global youth qualify for and find available jobs.
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The Early Childhood Challenge for Philanthropists
Investments that can dramatically improve kindergarten readiness for at-risk children.
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Squandering America’s Future
Squandering America’s Future offers an irreverent critique of the way we rear and educate children today, with profiles of change makers—ingenious gymnasts who keep their balance on the three-legged stool of research, practice, and policy.
Why Science Matters in International Aid
How the Belgian Red Cross is using scientific evidence to make its services more effective—and cost-effective.
Bridging the Clean Energy Divide
Solar-plus-storage capability needs to reach vulnerable populations fast. Can we speed up disruptive technologies’ usual path to adoption?
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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.