Tag: Technology
mPedigree: A Collective Impact Case Study
The collective impact of government organizations, nonprofits, social entrepreneurs, and businesses can produce a more effective social innovation model.
From the Lab to the Land: Disseminating Technologies for the Poor
Collaboration across sectors supports the scaling up of product dissemination and an organizations’ goals of improving the lives of low-income citizens.
Slacktivism, the Gateway to Change?
Two points of Slacktivism: 1) organizations create and endorse the level to which people take action 2) “slacker activism” is a gateway to lasting change.
Mobile Money in Haiti: A New Support for Disaster Relief and Development Programs
New mobile-based payment systems may offer a more affordable, and faster alternative to distributing cash to countries such as Haiti.
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Innovating at the Speed of Communities
When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need.
The Private Sector’s Role in Improving Global Health
Global health is one of the last frontiers for technical innovation. Companies can have an incredible impact by lending technical know-how to solve intricate global health challenges.
Reflections on Jumo & Need for Co-Creation
If I have an idea to change the world, I should be just as welcome and have equal access to the spaces where I can share the idea and find others to help me make it come to life.
New Media: Hype vs. Real World Success
A quick Google of the combination “New Media” and “Nonprofit” brings up over 300 million entries, and the hype shows no signs of letting up. The landscape is crawling with newly minted experts in Twitter, Facebook, texting and blogging—beseeching you to “leverage” new media, to become more “web-savvy”. Part of the goal is to make you feel left out, like you’re the only one who hasn’t been shown the “magic jelly bean” that will eradicate all those all those communication challenges that stand between your organization and donations, new members and advocacy actions.
However, if you shut out the clamor and look dispassionately at the communication hurdles that confront you, it’s not at all clear that New Media is delivering on its promise... (continue reading this blog post)
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