Global Issues
Medicare Saves Lives
Patients insured by Medicare are less likely to die within a week of hospital admission than their slightly younger counterparts.
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Social Innovations
The Madoff Philanthropic Implosion
With many in the community losing their savings in the Madoff scandal, Jewish philanthropies took a hard hit.
Diversity Brings the Dollars
More diverse workplaces have higher revenues, more customers, larger market shares, and greater relative profits.
Social Innovations
Great Teachers on the Fast Track
To save the nation, the United States needs alternative teacher training.
Government
A Nature State of Mind
True restoration—environmental and economic—will not come from congressional legislation, top-down stimulus money, or EPA rulings.
Review
Philanthropy
Rethinking Human Nature
Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner
Philanthropy
The Answer Is on the Ground
The solutions to seemingly impossible problems already exist in the communities facing those problems.
Global Issues
Why They Stayed
New research reveals the economic hardships that Katrina's "stayers" were battling and the abundance of negative opinions about them.
Nonprofits
How to Survive the Recession
The current recession has left few nonprofits unscathed and has hit theaters particularly hard. Creative entrepreneurial changes have proven more effective than the traditional belt-tightening.
Review
Social Innovations
Staying Vibrant and Curious
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John Gardner