Microfinance
Akhuwat: Making Microfinance Work
A groundbreaking microfinance model is bringing out the best in society.
Tag: Altruism
Understanding why people behave unselfishly
Technology & Design
Q&A with MASS Co-founder Michael Murphy
A new generation of architects and designers are raising expectations for the public interest design movement.
Technology & Design
Thrun on the Udacity Model
A follow up to the recent post "Some Questions About Udacity."
Technology & Design
Some Questions About Udacity
Artificial intelligence professor Sebastian Thrun quits Stanford to create a for-profit online university.
Philanthropy
Giving 2.0: Getting Together to Give
Giving circles are powerful ways to transform the world while also transforming participants’ giving.
Economic Development
Stone Soup and an Impoverished Mexican Village
In a session at the Opportunity Collaboration, stories were shared on the power and importance of community decision-making.
Technology
GOOD Buys Jumo, Seeks Social Connective Tissue
Jumo might just move from being a content platform for people who give a damn to an immersive experience.
Review
Philanthropy
Ethical Philanthropy
Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy by Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, & Leif Wenar
Podcast
Social Innovations
Creating Infectious Action
Jennifer Lynn Aaker discusses a repeatable method that we can follow to get people to take action, but perhaps even more important, to influence people to get others to take action as well.
Philanthropy
The Emotions of Aid
“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.