This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A flurry of edtech deals notwithstanding, education solutions attracted only 3% of global impact investing assets under management last year, according to the GIIN’s latest survey. One category where capital…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Blokable, a Seattle startup focused on manufactured housing, with goals of speeding up production, cutting costs for builders and making a dent in housing affordability, is raising some cash. According…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With a central philosophy that “it’s not worth giving, it’s not worth selling, it’s worth constructing together,” Pierre-Yves Herrouet is addressing the unmet needs of diverse impoverished rural and urban…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I was wrong. When the Every Student Succeeds Act passed in late 2015, I identified two ambiguities I thought were most ripe for exploitation to keep the federal boot hovering over public…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bring leading computer scientists together with leading astrophysicists, and exciting stuff happens—complex computer simulations of galaxy formation, algorithms churning through terabytes of data collected by telescope arrays. Read more about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities have a way to go before they can be considered geniuses. But they’re getting smart pretty fast. In just the past few years, mayors and other officials in cities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Emerging from a crowd of around a dozen women, Farida, a 32-year-old Syrian refugee living in Istanbul, stood in front of a cabinet full of bright and colorful threads and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More states than ever are providing publicly funded preschool. That’s according to a new report from the researchers at the National Institute for Early Education Research, or NIEER, who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Microsoft wants to work with the government to help connect rural Americans to broadband internet. Read more about social connectivity on Giving Compass The tech giant on Monday revealed its…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When you think about tech giants playing in healthcare, you think of Google, and the work Verily is doing; you think of Apple, and their HealthKit and ResearchKit applications, as well as their rumored plans to organize all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hyperloop One showed off the results of its first full-system test of a magnetically levitating rail vehicle in a vacuum environment, and said its next round of testing will target…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the main characters on HBO’s hit series, Game of Thrones, is paralyzed. Another has lost his right hand. We’ve met an important character with a severe skin…