’Tis the Season for Nonprofits to Maximize Online Donations
Behavioral economics research shows how small nudges can make a big difference to end-of-year fundraising results.
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The Looming Fight Over How We Give Our Data
We face a choice between two models for donating data: one governed by corporations and one determined by grassroots civic action. The winner will decide how much control we have over our digital information.
Fresh Water From Light
A young architect is tackling water scarcity with a household desalination device.
Open Social Innovation
A new approach to tackling social problems orchestrates the participation of multiple stakeholders in the process from generating ideas to scaling solutions.
Measuring Climate Risk
Climate Risk Labs (CRL), one of the emerging nonprofits tackling the climate crisis, aims to accelerate climate science research and build partnerships that utilize CRL’s data sets to shape future clean energy solutions.
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The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
The Challenge of Organizational Learning
A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
Opportunities in Mobile Health
The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.
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.
Amplifying Local Voices
GlobalGiving’s storytelling project turns anecdotes into useful data.