Mission-driven organizations should look beyond the tech sector and build AI partnerships with academia, CBOs, artists, and ...

What will women choose to do with this windfall? How much will they invest, spend, share with their heirs, or give back to ...

Strong IP protections will incentivize the human creativity that’s essential to improving, applying, and using AI.

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The documentary film The Providence Effect, released in late 2009, quickly drew admiring attention to a K-12 school serving Chicago’s blighted West Side. The majority of Providence-St. Mel’s (PSM) 700 ...

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor and director of the Earth Institute, is one of our leading public intellectuals. A trained economist (who became a full professor at Harvard University ...

The nonprofit organization Worldreader launched in 2010 with a simple and clear mission: to bring digital books to disadvantaged children and their families. In just five years, the organization has ...

This special supplement includes eight articles that explore new ways for social investors to spur innovations that create better, faster, and less expensive health care in the United States. The ...

Everyone in the social sector, it seems, is discussing how to use data to deliver social good. The coming years will no doubt see the continued growth in data-driven nonprofits and social businesses, ...

The scale and complexity of the US public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Major funders, such as the Annenberg Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts have ...

Every year, hundreds of new innovation books are published with well-meaning and intriguing recommendations for managers and organizations. They tout such innovation success factors as a risk-taking ...

Pitched between a forested ridge and the boundless sprawl of Mumbai, the village of Kokanipada is home to 2,000 people, most of whom work as day laborers in India’s financial capital. Their children ...