Democracy is under threat in many parts of the world. Economic inequality has given rise to calls for a new economy in which the fruits of economic activity and power are shared more equally and ...

In 2020, amid a global pandemic and a wave of antiracist protests inspired by the US Black Lives Matter movement, the young German nonprofit JoinPolitics prepared its first group of motivated citizens ...

The Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship recently launched its 2024 Social Innovation Lab (SIL) cohort with 15 entrepreneurial teams—an additional five teams this year for the lab's largest ...

As an ever increasing number of businesses step up to address the great challenges of our time, significant opportunities for social innovation are rising to the fore. More and more businesses are ...

Social innovation is the development and application of new methods, tools, and solutions that bring forward change. This is generally achieved through organizational or conceptual improvements.

The world is at a critical juncture as economies and livelihoods are battered by multiple overlapping crises, from war in Ukraine to climate change and the fallout of COVID-19. Yet again, it is the ...

The University of San Diego (USD) will host the global finals of the 2026 Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge (GSIC) on Saturday, May 2, 2026. The event brings together student entrepreneurs ...

Jonathan Prosser is Director of Innovation Lab at Compassion UK, Founder of PaxHax, and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Many corporations have scouting networks around the world to ...

Johns Hopkins’ Social Innovation Lab (SIL) gathered the cause-driven innovators in its 2023-24 cohort for a special session on Saturday. Chosen from a pool of 120 applications, the 10 selected ...

In the spring of 2015, Jamye Wooten took a reverend from Ferguson, Missouri, on a tour through Baltimore. It was several weeks after Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man, died while in police custody ...

Our students become well prepared to work to improve the lives of society’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged people and go on to work in a wide array of fields. The certificate program in social ...