This week Dowser is revisiting our best tech stories while our writers report back from the Social Good Summit. Check back often for our conference coverage - we'll examine the power of technology and innovative thinking to create change. Andrew Rasiej is what ...
Growing up Muslim in Chicago, Eboo Patel was familiar with faith-based tension from an early age, and has watched as jihad entered the cultural lexicon and Islam became synonymous with terrorism. He longed to reconcile differences between religions as a means of creating ...
Financial and social profits don’t always go hand-in-hand; many view the two as antithetical. Aron Cramer has made a career out of upending this notion. Driven by a belief that business leaders care as much as anyone else about social concerns, Cramer has ...
The difficulty of measuring impact is one of the most persistent and nagging challenges in the social arena. Organizations evaluate their results in different ways, using different tools and benchmarks. The result is a hodgepodge of metrics that make it difficult to compare ...
Five-year-olds from low-income communities have one-quarter the vocabulary of their more affluent peers, and half of them enter first grade as much as two years behind in preschool skills. That’s a severe handicap, which will persist for life unless something powerful intervenes. That's ...
One of the toughest challenges facing social innovators today is attracting the talent needed to build world-class organizations. That's why we feel it's significant when a high-ranking business leader decides to redirect his or her focus to solve global problems. Allen Wilcox is ...
Foster care kids don’t get many breaks. Imagine being abandoned by or forcibly separated from your parents, and then having to adjust to life in a new family or within an impersonal, bureaucratic system Some 30,000 young people age out of foster care ...
A while back we conducted an interview with Joan Sullivan, who was then the Principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City middle and high school founded in 2003. Earlier this year, Sullivan was appointed Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor of ...
At 32, after a two-decade battle with drug addiction, Gary Field walked out of a rehab center and shortly thereafter discovered a passion for helping others. Field began working as a social worker focusing on mental health care in New York City, but ...
Kristin Hayden, the founder of the Seattle-based OneWorld Now!, faced her share of rejection while trying to get her global leadership organization off the ground. She spent two years trying (unsuccessfully) to raise grants. When things looked bleak, Hayden stayed on course by ...