“We got [the ban on land-mines] to be a competition ... a campaigner would go to their government and say 'this was done here, this was done there ... what are you going to do?'”
Jody Williams
Large-scale social change depends on government, business, and civil society embracing new forms of collaboration.
The global challenges we seek to combat—deforestation, healthcare access and treatment, educational and economic opportunity, and smallholder productivity and food security, among many others—are so complex and interconnected that no one sector can tackle these issues effectively on their own. Lasting impact requires sustainable, cross-sector collaboration and coordination across multiple sectors.
Each of us—social entrepreneurs, NGOs, philanthropies, investors, businesses, policy-makers—has a role to play, strategic advantages to offer, and core competencies that we can leverage for impact.
May 20 - 26, 2013
Debate
Skoll Original
Skoll Original
mPowering Women and Girls
Last year, USAID launched a new policy on Gender Equality and Female Empowerment to address the challenges of gender inequality in political participation, economic markets, education and health. The policy underscores a critical premise: that equal participation of women and girls in society leads to more effective and sustainable health and development outcomes.
Debate
Skoll Original
Skoll Original
For Expectant and New Mothers, Mobile Fosters Confidence and a Healthier Future
Husbands and mothers-in-law are influential and oftentimes the primary decision-makers in what a mother should eat, when and if she should visit a clinic, and how she should care for her newborn. To address this cultural dynamic, BabyCenter, a Johnson & Johnson company, worked with MAMA to develop a second set of mobile adaptable messages geared towards household decision-makers.
Editor's Pick
Bill Gates: How GDP Understates Economic Growth
The Guardian
Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources. How do you decide which countries should get low-cost loans or cheaper vaccines, and which can afford to fund their own development programmes?
Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisions about where to focus their limited resources. How do you decide which countries should get low-cost loans or cheaper vaccines, and which can afford to fund their own development programmes?
May 13 - 19, 2013
Article
Skoll Original
Skoll Original
Ending HIV/AIDS in the United States
I know that if we can change a room, we can change the District. If we can change the District, we can change the United States. And if we can change the United States, my goodness, we can change the world.
Article
Skoll Original
Skoll Original
The Full Impact of Impact Sourcing
Continuous quality improvements and reduced cost mean we can serve more students better, while we also seek new technology solutions that will completely change the landscape in the future.
Editor's Pick
High Stakes Donor Collaborations
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Pioneering groups of foundations and philanthropists have pooled their talent and resources to help solve social sector problems too big for any one to tackle alone. What can donors learn from these efforts?
May 6 - 12, 2013
Editor's Pick
The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Fellows for Inaugural Global Fellowship Program on Social Innovation
Rockefeller Foundation
Fellows will have the opportunity to build strategic relationships with a likeminded community of change-makers from across sectors, across issue areas, and across the globe. The program was designed by a collaborative team from the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo in Canada and the Stockholm Resilience Centre atStockholm University in Sweden.
Fellows will have the opportunity to build strategic relationships with a likeminded community of change-makers from across sectors, across issue areas, and across the globe. The program was designed by a collaborative team from the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo in Canada and the Stockholm Resilience Centre atStockholm University in Sweden.
Editor's Pick
Scaling Up Social Innovation - Lessons Learned
Huffington Post
Next week in Cape Town, many world leaders will be convening at this year's installment of the World Economic Forum Africa. At the meeting, I have been asked to discuss some of our lessons learned over the past year in a session entitled "New Solutions: Scaling Up Social Innovation".
Apr 29 - May 5, 2013
Debate
Forum 2013
Skoll Original
Investing in Inclusion: How to Deliver Financial Services to the World’s Poor
One point is clear: philanthropy, though critically important, is insufficient to achieve full financial inclusion. We need to harness the capital markets and create institutions that deliver both social and financial returns. Though we are a nonprofit, we work to build sustainable, scalable, for-profit companies dedicated to serving the financial needs of society’s most vulnerable members: those living in poverty.
Debate
Forum 2013
Skoll Original
Delivery 2.0: How Governments can Deliver Better, Faster, and Cheaper
Many outcomes require a number of government agencies to work together toward a common goal. This is notoriously difficult to pull off in a world of silos, disparate agendas, and competition for funding. Governments typically respond by setting up committees or task forces that tend to represent their own interests. Little progress is made in meetings, and even less between them. What can be done?
