Root Solutions
Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.
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Nau and Again
When Nau, an outdoor clothing start-up from Portland, Ore., launched in 2005, word on the street had it that the company would push socially responsible business to new heights. But barely a year after putting its earth-toned parkas and virgin merino wool sweaters up for sale in its übercool “webfront” stores, Nau pulled the plug. Find out how Nau tried on too much, too fast.
Eyeing Talent
VisionSpring picks promising social entrepreneurs to restore the eyesight of poor people.
Clean Sweep
E + Co connects the dots between energy, poverty, and the environment.
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.
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Tackling HIV
Grassroot Soccer uses the world’s most popular sport to educate kids in sub-Saharan Africa about HIV and its prevention.