Articles P6600

Nonprofits

Turn on the TV, Class

By Jennifer Roberts

Poor children can watch rich children's better school classes on TV.

Social Innovations

The Pepsi Spirit—of Giving Back

By Jennifer Roberts

Pepsi's free CSR: enrolling more than 27,000 of its U.S. employees in the Wireless AMBER Alert Program.

Government

Polling Power

By Jennifer Roberts

A new Web site shows voters who like-minded peers, organizations, and opinion leaders support.

Business

Texting It In

By Jennifer Roberts

A free, open-source software package lets health care workers in developing countries better fight disease.

Social Innovations

Root Solutions

By Suzie Boss

Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.

Social Innovations

The New Frontier

By Jennifer Roberts

LeapFrog Investments will bring better insurance to more of the world's poor.

Creating Social Value

By Philip Auerswald 1

The idea that social entrepreneurs create something called social value—good works that go above and beyond what traditional entrepreneurs and businesses deliver—is a dearly held tenet of the social change movement. But what exactly is social value, and how do social entrepreneurs go about creating it?

Social Innovations

Effective Funding

By Steven Lawry

How foundations can best support social innovators.