Built WELL
Taking a lead from LEED certification, a new standard aims to promote healthy construction of homes, offices, and other structures.
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Taking a Charter Flight
In one prominent effort to reinvent public schools, promise and performance don't necessarily match up.
The Ethics of Innovation
An ethical framework can bridge the worlds of startup technology and international development to strengthen cross-sector innovation in the social sector.
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Shared Measurement and Big Data for Good
Traditional tools for evaluation and measurement fail to take into account the complexity of an interconnected and digitized world.
Getting Leapfrogging Right
A new generation of digital breakthroughs holds the potential to deliver important social benefits, but only if we adopt technology in a different way.
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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.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
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.
The Dragonfly Effect
Two veterans of consumer psychology, marketing, and entrepreneurship provide a guide to using social media for social change.
The Case for Causal AI
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.