Clean Sweep
E + Co connects the dots between energy, poverty, and the environment.
Field Report - Articles
Profiles of innovative work (more)
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.
Dropping the Ball
Why the Soccer Ball Project—one of the world's first multistakeholder efforts to stop abuses of labor rights—is failing to protect workers in Pakistan.
Monk E-Business
LaserMonks, a multimillion-dollar enterprise, sells ink-jet cartridges and other office supplies online to support its Cistercian abbey in Wisconsin and to help others.
Soup Kitchen Confidential
To share its expertise without jeopardizing its mission, FareStart spun out a new organization.
They’ve Got Your Back
The Posse Foundation sends diverse students to college together so that they can lean on each other and lead their schools.
Tackling HIV
Grassroot Soccer uses the world’s most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa about HIV and its prevention.
She’s Crafty
World of Good connects female artisans in poor countries with retailers (including Whole Foods Market, pictured) in the West.
From the Ground Up
Part academic institution, part activist group, part think tank, ATREE crosses sectors to breed a new species of conservation agency in India.
Books to Grow On
How did Room to Read create more than 5,000 libraries in less than eight years? The media have largely focused on founder John Wood as the catalytic figure in the organization's success story. Of equal importance, however, is Room to Read's solid and replicable operational choices.