Personal Attention Reduces Poverty
Circles, a national program for helping families get out of poverty, taps an underused resource: middle-class support groups.
Social Issues - Articles
Safer Deliveries
The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.
Assessing One’s Own Performance
What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.
Realigning Health with Care
The misalignment between the expansive goal of “health” and a cramped definition of “care” has cost the United States untold lives and treasure. Yet realignment is in reach.
Lifetime Inequality
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.
Focused Cardiac Care
What happens when hospitals specialize?
Civic Education Through Social Networks
In Kenya, civic education programs reached 4.5 million people in advance of the 2002 election.
Fostering Social Entrepreneurship in Lebanon
Social entrepreneurship provides a path to transform Lebanon’s challenges into opportunities for change and development.
ReCoding Good: Part 5
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
A Fresh Take on Building Prosperous Cities
Local government strategic planning is needed to move cities forward at the necessary rate of reform.