Articles P6990

Philanthropy

Who Are You? How Do You Know?

By Lucy Bernholz

Two conferences spur questions about self-identity.

Podcast

Kim Feinberg - Self-Sufficiency Through Education

AIDS in South Africa has left millions of children without parents or any resources to help themselves. In this audio interview with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman, Kim Feinberg describes how her organization, the Tomorrow Trust, uses education to help these children grow into self sufficient, economically productive, and socially included adults.

Podcast

Natalie Portman - Eradicating Poverty Through Microfinance

One of the biggest problems that low-income people around the world face is the lack of access to capital that might otherwise help them rise out of poverty. Invited to Stanford, actress Natalie Portman turns the spotlight on her work to promote FINCA's International Village Banking Campaign, aiming to bring financial services to one million of the world's lowest-income families through 100,000 Village Banks by 2010.

Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights

By Suzie Boss 1

The Regeneration Project helps the environmental movement get religion.

Social Innovations

MicroEnergy Credits Corporation: Catalyzing Clean Energy for the BoP

By Grace Augustine 1

Using existing microfinance institutions and recent developments in the carbon credit markets on the supply side to facilitate the adoption of clean energy for the very poor.

Social Innovations

Root Causes vs. Facebook Causes

By Peter Deitz 15

Few social action platforms are currently leveraging the self-organizing potential of social media to address the root causes that make online social activism necessary in the first place.

Podcast

Stephen Friedman, Gene Sperling - America and the Global Economy

Stephen Friedman and Gene Sperling, former policy advisors to the Clinton and Bush administrations, discuss some of the challenges that the next president will face in the coming years. Central to this panel discussion is the role that globalization will play in formulating policies to ensure that the United States remains competitive with the world. Some of these changes will require deft political skill and the mobilization of popular support behind sensitive issues.