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New digital projects could make legal services far more accessible—but they need to be about more than just the technology.
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Stories are the most powerful tool we have for increasing understanding and building engagement with complex issues. Telling them well can drive belief and behavior change.
A Critical Reflection on Social Impact Bonds
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The Relational Work of Systems Change
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Inside Switzerland’s Radical Drug Policy Innovation
A look at how Switzerland radically and successfully changed its approach to drug policy following a heroin epidemic in the late 1980s and 90s, and what the effort teaches us about the social innovation process.
To End Homelessness, the Energy of Money Must Change
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We Know How to Prevent Gun Violence. Now We Need to Scale It.
Chicago CRED proceeds from the belief that the individuals most at risk are not the problem—they are the solution.