Nonprofits
Why All Leaders Should Have Gone to Design School
Great leadership is all about the ability to design social systems.
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Government
Romanticizing the Poor
Market solutions to poverty, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,” portray poor people as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers. Yet this rosy view of poverty-stricken people is not only wrong, but also harmful.
Podcast
Panel Discussion - Which Way to Education Excellence?
America's primary and secondary education lags behind that of other advanced countries. In this panel discussion, hosted by the New Republic, experts argue that improving the quality of education would generate enough economic growth to pay for the entire education system itself. They suggest catching up will require cooperation, national standards, better incentives for teachers, and accountability.
Eyeing Talent
VisionSpring picks promising social entrepreneurs to restore the eyesight of poor people.
Clicking for Smart CSR
National Instrument's partnerships not only energize science education, but also boost the company's brand and employee morale.
Left: An engineer readies her robot at the 2008 FIRST Lego League World Festival, an annual competition that brings together teams of students to show off their engineering chops. Powering her robot was sophisticated software developed by National Instruments. Her team, the Power Peeps of Swartz Creek, Mich., placed third.
Q&A: William Brindley
William Brindley spent most of his career keeping financial institutions at the leading edge of technology. Now, as CEO of the nonprofit consortium NetHope, he is using those same skills to help nonprofits do the same. NetHope now has 25 member organizations, among them Save the Children, Mercy Corps, Oxfam, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and Catholic Relief Services.
Nonprofits
Climate Change
Social entrepreneurism should focus less on charismatic personalities and more on ideas that work.
Nonprofits
Everybody’s Got an Idea for the Transition Except for Me and My Monkey
The new administration needs to support nonprofits with expert advice and access to money.