School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.
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Training in Progress
A program at Credit Suisse helps high-level employees—and valued clients—to master the art of nonprofit board service.
If It Does Good, Feel It
Benefiting emotionally from altruistic behavior doesn’t lessen—indeed, it increases—other people’s regard for that behavior.
A “Value Added” Evaluation
Teachers who help boost students’ test scores also have a notable impact on students’ long-term outcomes.
Sharing the Stage
The example of venture philanthropy in Europe shows how old and new forms of practice can coexist.
Ends and Means
In the way that people think about end-of-life care, moral and economic motives converge and commingle.
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Past Isn’t Always Prologue
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
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A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.
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Uncertain Legacy
Can the history of a century-old foundation amount to more than the sum of its grants?
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Misdiagnosing Science
A survey of obstacles to innovation focuses erroneously on the supposed caution of university-based scientists.