Cultivating Serendipity
A new book prescribes an active approach to managing uncertainty and creating positive outcomes in a fast-changing world.
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A Third Space of Proximity
How a college-in-prison nonprofit continues to teach during prison quarantine.
COVID-19 Is Challenging Medical and Scientific Publishing
To transform how early medical data is shared, reviewed, and published, MIT and UC Berkeley are developing a new model of academic publishing.
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Insuring the Future of Work
Hire Purpose proposes how the insurance industry’s practice of actuarial science can be utilized to train a new generation of workers in the COVID-19 world.
Climate Action Is Too Big for ESG Mandates
As a macro risk factor, climate change needs to be disentangled from the other social and governance mandates in the ESG investing rubric.
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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.