House calls. Grand rounds. Delivery of care. The language of medicine implies movement, and that movement was once the norm. From the peripatetic physician of ancient times to the country doctor riding [...]
Opting in to social investment
The past decade has seen the emergence of sophisticated thinking about how financial investments can be used to do good in the world. But the problem is that most people don’t think [...]
Moving beyond the vote
The voting booth used to be like the VIP Room of an upscale club. Not only were the number of entrants few, but they could tell themselves they’d earned it [...]
Adding empathy to the curriculum
All sorts of people have great ideas for injecting empathy into schools, from educational theorists in the academy to innovative instructors in the pedagogical trenches. And hardly anyone is opposed [...]
Scaling imagination
There’s a reason why a disproportionate amount of cutting-edge creative work comes out of small agencies, small studios, small development shops and small design houses. It’s not that big organizations [...]
Mobilizing parents for education reform
There is no shortage of big thinking about public education in the United States. There are hundreds of foundations, think tanks, universities, corporate outreach departments and startup companies developing workable [...]
Imagining truly global collaboration
We’re in an unprecedented era of innovation. We all agree on what’s driving that innovation: new connections made possible by the Internet. There’s no doubt that it’s easier to connect [...]
Developing communities together
If Apple is already releasing its fifth iteration of the iPhone in only four years, surely it’s time for Community Development 3.0. For hundreds of years, landowners built what they [...]
Lifting the blues
UX for Good is a wildly ambitious effort to design systemic solutions for some of the most vexing social challenges. It was founded in 2010 by Labs Dean Jeff Leitner and [...]
Re-discovering the path to success
Over the past several decades, the humanities have become a nice-to-have, rather than a need-to-have as evidenced by lower funding for the arts and arts education, decreased public participation in [...]