News & Reviews
Inspirational Reading for Creators of Impact (Unit Co., 12/17/21)
Top 21 Impact and ESG Investing Books You Should Read (SustainFi, 8/3/21)
$60 Million in New Grants Help Nonprofits Innovate Quickly to Close Financial Equity Gaps (Chronicle of Philanthropy, 7/21/21)
“Lean” impact evaluations: experimental evidence in adaptive humanitarian interventions (World Food Programme, 7/12/21)
Small Bets, Big Impact: Driving Innovation in Development (IFC Insights, 9/30/20)
‘Our biggest enemy is ourselves’ – innovation guru Ann Mei Chang tells impact funders to raise the bar on risk-taking (Pioneers Post, 9/22/20)
Five Impact Investing #Quaranreads (Karma Impact, 4/28/20)
We. Will. Fail….maybe. (London International Development Network, 11/3/19)
How to create, measure and improve impact? — A Business Design review (Business Design for Social Good, 10/28/19)
What can the social sector learn from Silicon Valley? (Alliance Magazine, 8/16/19)
Summer Reads (Digital Agenda, 7/30/19)
Here’s Your Summer Impact Reading List (Tracking Media Impact, July 2019)
Lean Impact: Guiding Principles (Insights with Impact, 5/20/19)
Applying “Lean” Innovations for Social Good (Yale School of Management, 4/25/19)
Book Review: Value, growth, impact: how the lean startup approach can transform social enterprise (Your Story, 4/23/19)
Book Review: Lean Impact by Ann Mei Chang (Seita, 4/13/19)
Book highlight—From innovation to impact for social good (Wiley Global Business and Organizational Excellence, May/June 2019)
A framework for the hard questions: Reflections on the wisdom of Ann Mei Chang (20°, 3/18/19)
Thinking about social good at the systems level (Faith & Leadership, 2/19/19)
What to Read in 2019 (Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2/15/19)
Iterative development and minimum viable products help non-profits succeed (ZDNet, 1/31/19)
Book Review: Lean Impact (Irish Tech News, 1/25/19)
Former USAID chief innovation officer visits Pact to discuss social sector impact (Pact, 1/25/19)
Cover Story: Lean Radical Change (Change Creator, 1/16/19)
10 Books to Read in 2019 by SXSW Speakers (SxSW, 1/11/19)
Helen’s Bookshelf (Midwest Book Review, 1/9/19)
Best Mission Books of 2018 (Catalyst Services, 12/21/18)
Achieving better results in global development even when you can’t innovate radically (Kristin Lord, 12/6/18)
A Special Gender & Mobiles Interview with Ann Mei Chang (Dr. Ronda Zelezny-Green, 11/27/18)
Books to Gift a Nonprofit Leader This Holiday Season (Todd Polyniak, 11/26,18)
Lean impact: How to apply lean startup principles to non-profits for social good (ZDNet, 11/19/18)
Serious About Your Social Mission? Then Innovate It (Inc, 11/14/18)
A Conversation With Ann Mei Chang, Author, 'Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good' (Philanthropy News Digest, 11/14/18)
National Authors Day: Inspirational Authors to Follow on Twitter (Jean Case, 11/1/18)
Bookshelf | November/December 2018 (BizEd, 11/1/18)
Business Bestsellers for October 2018 (800-CEO-READ, 11/1/18)
What I’m Reading this Fall (Kathleen Kelly Janus, 10/31/18)
Future of Philanthropy (Fast Company, 10/30/18)
This 1 Trick Could Hold the Key to Your Next Breakthrough (Inc., 10/30/18)
A Vision for Change: How VisionSpring Found Scale Through Partnerships (Skoll Foundation, 10/30/18)
Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs Want to Solve Big Problems. Here’s How They Can Do It. (Story Exchange, 10/30/18)
Can we use start-up strategies to scale social impact? (GreenBiz, 10/28/18)
Using the 'lean startup' methodology to optimize for impact (DevEx, 10/25/18)
A new manual for transforming the social sector (Brookings Institution, 10/25/18)
How to Innovate for Greater Social Good: In Convo with author Ann Mei Chang (SEE Change, 10/17/18)
Articles by me
Twin Engines for Propelling Social Impact (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 4/22/21)
“Innovation in Development Policy: Maximizing Impact and Results” Written Testimony (House Foreign Affairs Committee, 4/16/21)
Beyond Survival: Five Keys to Unlock Social Innovation Amid the COVID-19 Crisis (Bridgespan, 5/6/20)
Could You Be Undermining Your Own Impact? (WINGS global network, 3/28/19)
The “Lean” Nonprofit (Philanthropy News Journal, 3/25/19)
Three ways to increase innovation while minimising risk to taxpayer dollars (Apolitical, 2/21/19)
Great Ideas Alone Don’t Advance Social Changes. Here’s What Does. (Chronicle of Philanthropy, 1/8/19)
Why Nonprofits Should Rethink Risk (Nonprofit Information, 12/10/18)
What's missing from impact investors’ hunt for both social and financial returns (LinkedIn Weekend Essay, 11/2/18)
An Operating Model to Make Social Innovation Stick (Stanford Social Innovation Review, 10/30/18)
It’s Time to Break Out of the Innovation Silo (ICTworks, 10/18/18)
Beyond Fearless Leadership: Moving Impact Forward (Aspen Global Leadership Network, 9/30/18)
Lessons Learned: Ann Mei Chang (Startup Lessons Learned, 9/6/18)
What Makes Lean Impact Harder: Top 10 Challenges for Social Innovation (Lean Startup Co, 8/12/18)