Boosting Farmer Incomes in Agricultural Supply Chains
Effectively tackling farmer poverty in global supply chains is not about repeating what others have tried in the past—it’s about doing business differently.
Social Issues - Articles
The Art of Values-Based Innovation for Humanitarian Action
To truly benefit from innovation, humanitarian organizations need to regard it as a set of values that runs through all of their practices. The first of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a new series exploring innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
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An Office Space of One’s Own
An excerpt from Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace, which looks at the challenge of finding affordable and stable office space for nonprofits.
How Businesses Can Take the Lead in Combatting Gender-Based Violence
Five steps companies can take to comprehensively tackle violence and harassment in the workplace.
Filling the Gaps in Collective Impact
Nine supporting activities that can help make collective impact approaches to social change more nuanced and rigorous.
How to Ensure Opportunity Zone Investments Strengthen Local Communities
Foundations, governments, and crowdfunding platforms show how Opportunity Zones can live up to their promise of making investors money while helping struggling communities across the United States.
10 Lessons From Health Care on Quality Improvement
Pitfalls and promising practices drawn from experimentation with quality-improvement methods and performance management in health care.
To Augment Tech’s Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa, Impact Investors Should Focus on the Startup Ecosystem
Three recommendations on how impact investors can foster more sustainable changes in Sub-Saharan Africa and its tech sectors by focusing less on "sexy" individual startups and more on universities, hubs, and research and development institutions.
The United States Needs Career-Connected Learning
With a study-and-work approach, we can create more opportunities for more students beyond high school. A Viewpoint from the Fall 2019 issue.
National Service Journalism
Journalism corps program Report for America pairs working journalists with resource-strapped local news organizations for a yearlong employment contract. A What's Next article from the Fall 2019 issue.