Tech for the Public Good
In Power to the Public, Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank make the case for renovating government and policymaking with 21st-century digital technology.
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How to Deliver Cash Transfer Programs More Effectively to Hard-to-Reach Populations
Cash transfer programs often struggle to reach those most in need. An investigation of four programs across Brazil, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Palestine revealed five features that lead to success.
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Human-Centric Business
An excerpt from Convergence argues that today’s leaders must recognize the many signals of accelerating disruption and the increasing convergence where people, technology, and business intersect.
Social-Tech Entrepreneurs: Building Blocks of a New Social Economy
How a new genre of social entrepreneur can wield emerging technologies to create integrated and inclusive social and industrial policies.
How European Governments Can Help Spur Innovations for the Public Good
Sensible innovation policy design, targeted at innovations for the public good, can be a crucial tool in helping our societies recover and rebuild.
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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.