By Malaika Cheney-Coker Somewhere in those unseen servers where the neurons of AI hum and purr, is the sound of connections not being made. AI, that genie in a bottle both increasingly omnipotent and omnipresent, when queried, fails to identify one of its greatest areas of potential for the social sector—boosting our ability to create and to speed up the translation of our imaginations into real-life. This is surely because we in the social sector have not yet expressed a vis

By Abbie Cohen The private sector has long recognized failure as part of a much larger, innovative process. “Failing fast and hard” is even rewarded at some companies, because businesses recognize the learning opportunities that failures can propagate. Google is a perfect example; through their “20% time policy”, the company encourages its employees to spend 20% of their workweek on projects that are not necessarily related to their main job responsibilities. While this init

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a very good aid to the imagination, just not good enough to imagine for us. By Malaika Cheney-Coker...

By Malaika Cheney-Coker Aside from the lure of work-from-home privileges and higher salaries offered up as reason for the Great...

By Malaika Cheney-Coker My four-year-old son and I indulge in flights of fancy. Together we imagine flying cars that journey into the...

In the new results measurement landscape, implementing organizations, rather than donors, should lead By Malaika Cheney-Coker Other than boasting prolific acronym generating abilities (M&E, MEL, MEAL, MERL, MERLA, anyone?), the field of learning and results measurement is not typically known for its trendiness. Nonetheless, if you are congratulating yourself on having sorted out your outcomes from your outputs, your theory of change from your theory of action, now is not the