How to join projects with real impact
Seven signals for assessing a project before committing, and the four attitudes that decide whether your participation helps or gets in the way.
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What social impact is, how it gets created, and how to measure it honestly: the uncomfortable gap between activity and transformation.
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Social impact innovation in Latin America
Five areas where the region is producing models the rest of the world copies, and why scarcity of resources turned out to be a design advantage.
What corporate social responsibility actually is
The four dimensions that define it, what it is NOT even when called that, and four business redesigns that make it part of the operation.
Why social impact matters for modern companies
Three converging forces turned corporate responsibility into competitive strategy, and the question separating companies that transform from those doing activities.
Examples of social impact in vulnerable communities
Five shapes of intervention that produce measurable change, the four elements they share, and the five mistakes every one of them avoided.
What social transformation means in real life
The difference between treating the symptom and changing the root, the four dimensions where it happens, and the test that reveals which one you did.
How social impact projects work today
Co-creation, short cycles, continuous measurement and outcome-based funding. Six questions to tell whether a project uses current methods or 1990s ones.
How to measure a social project's impact without fooling yourself
Activities, outputs, outcomes and impact are four different things. Confusing them is why organizations end up reporting work instead of change.
How to join real social impact communities
Four signals that separate an active community from one that only exists on paper, and how to get in without committing to the first one you find.
How to create social impact from scratch, step by step
Validate before you build, start small, and do not incorporate too early. Five steps, and the three mistakes that sink most new initiatives.
What social impact is, and how it actually gets created
Social impact is not the same as social activity. Three criteria separate them, and the second one is the one almost no organization dares to apply.