Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship
Blue Ridge Lab鈥檚 success in funding social enterprises across a variety of corporate structures challenges the typical nonprofit model.
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Fighting for Civil Rights in the Age of Technological Innovation
What can be accomplished when conversations usually kept in a closed circle of policy advisors are opened to new voices?
Bootstrapping Infrastructure in the Public Interest
Without networks, victims of natural disasters can’t contact loved ones, discover safe zones, or track relief efforts.
What Will It Take to Achieve Truly Data-Driven Policy?
It’s hard to make good policy when we don’t know how, why, or when policies are doing what they should. Here’s how to change that.
Building the Grant Calculator
What if we made it easier for non-profits to know how much their time was really worth?
Bureaucratic Mysteries: Design tools for government
What tools are most helpful when building out complex technical social solutions?
Local opioid mapping convening creates collaboration
Advocates shared mapping strategies for the opioid epidemic and explained how this is being used for education and response efforts.
As Technologists, It’s Time That We Upgrade The Ethics Of Our Work
What must we do to ensure that different technologies produce benefits for humanity that are accessible to all while minimizing their risks?
Open Educational Resources can address concerns of the teacher strike
OER鈥 materials that are free to download, modify, and use鈥 should be a central pillar of the current requests in education.
Designing for Health
How do we leverage technology to transform the medical care system to one that promotes health and well-being?