The Upside of CSR
For companies, higher levels of social performance often translate into improved access to funding.
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Survivor of an Acid Attack
Women and even girls continue to be the victims of acid attacks by men in Bangladesh and other countries.
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A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
Applied “Womenomics”
How Goldman Sachs deployed a far-reaching, data-driven strategy to further the cause of women’s entrepreneurship. Includes magazine extras.
A New Approach to Global Conservation
In the next 10 years, we will move toward protecting the environment for people not from them.
What I Think About When I Think About Running
Haruki Murakami uses running as a metaphor to describe his journey as a novelist, but the metaphor works equally well for social innovation.
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The Science Behind Compassion
Dr. James Doty highlights our "compassion deficit" and the need to recognize the societal and individual benefits of altruism.
Tackling Financial Exclusion
How to provide sustainable banking solutions for low-income consumers in the United States and abroad.
The Dirt on Seed-Funding Social Change
As philanthropists, I think our deepest duty is to gamble on people, through untried solutions that just might overturn ancient societal inequities.