Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Among Youth
Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, identifies key skills of change makers and lays out a plan to teach these skills around the world.
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Social Issues - Articles
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Environmental Sustainability with World Water
Experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector.
Fair Trade: A Model for Sustainable Development
Fair Trade is a viable vehicle for producers to strengthen their positions and take more control over their lives.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Less Epistemology, More Evolution
An analysis of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s book Poor Economics.
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Grassroots Philanthropy in Schools
Founder of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity helping students in need, Charles Best talks about how he started the organization and what some of its challenges have been along the way.
How Do You Create a New Normal? A Three-Part Path to Scale
At Social Impact Exchange, a forum dedicated to scaling high-impact social programs, investors wanted to know “How will your idea achieve scale?”
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Macroeconomic Perspective on the Budget Deficit
Joe Minarik, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, talks about the macroeconomic perspective on the U.S. budget deficit and its impact on the US economy.
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Connecting Nonprofits
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tells us about how he started CraigConnects, chose areas to support, and selected nonprofits to focus on.
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Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Haas School professor Severin Borenstein argues that to have a significant impact in the energy market, any renewable alternative must be scalable.