Food
Achieving Greater Impact Through Model-Sharing
Even if another model isn’t quite right, the idea of model-sharing—teaching and learning lessons from others—can be enlightening.
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Review
Social Innovations
Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof
Nonprofit Management
Outrun the Recession
The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.
Social Innovations
Public-Private Alliances Transform Aid
The dual goals of scalability and sustainability have eluded many development projects. In recent years, however, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has reached out to corporations, nonprofits, and even private citizens to build alliances that are making large-scale, long-term change. In this article, the former head of USAID describes the public-private partnership model that his agency forged, the successes that the model has won, and the struggles that it continues to face.
Social Innovations
The Madoff Philanthropic Implosion
With many in the community losing their savings in the Madoff scandal, Jewish philanthropies took a hard hit.
Global Issues
It’s Not About the Work Ethic
Protestants' work ethic is a product of the denomination's emphasis on education.
Nonprofits
SkollFest Wraps
This blog is the last of Marcia Stepanek's coverage of the Skoll World Forum 2009 at Oxford University.
Research
Saving Lives, Not Just Souls
New research estimates the value of the services provided by faith-based organizations.
Nonprofits
Straws and Nets
The author asks if there really is a difference between religious organizations taking x percent of a donation for their church and a nonprofit taking money out for operating costs.
Nonprofits
Monk E-Business
LaserMonks, a multimillion-dollar enterprise, sells ink-jet cartridges and other office supplies online to support its Cistercian abbey in Wisconsin and to help others.