The Invisible Balance Sheet

By Roland J. Kushner 1

Nonprofits can better evaluate and deploy their capacity to achieve their missions by accounting for the assets and liabilities that don’t necessarily appear on their financial statements.

Bookstores as Civic Centers

By Kathy O. Brozek

The indie bookstore movement believes the future of bookstores lies in their ability to serve as thriving community spaces.

Growing the Green Workforce

By Marianne Dhenin

Chicago-based nonprofit Openlands created an arborist apprenticeship program to train the next generation of arborists to maintain the city’s urban forest.

A School of Indigenous Knowledge

By Kristi Eaton 1

The Tat Sat Community Academy tackles Uganda’s education crisis with a curriculum that emphasizes practical job skills, financial literacy, and cultural knowledge.

TV for Africa’s Deaf Community

By Valentine Benjamin

Signs TV Uganda offers programming by deaf broadcasters that is also interpreted in sign to serve Africa’s growing, yet underserved, hearing-impaired demographic.

Saudi Female Social Entrepreneurs

By Ghadah W. Alharthi & Tuukka Toivonen

Women in the Middle East seeking to launch social enterprises face significant barriers, but they can overcome them by leveraging social ties.

Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.

Discipline, Punish, and Palliate

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.

For Investors, Protesting Beats Divesting

By Daniela Blei

Investors exert more influence over corporate management through engagement than through boycotts and divestment.

The Future of Elite Giving

Reviewed By Maribel Morey

The coauthors of For-Profit Philanthropy recommend policies to reestablish the public’s trust in philanthropy—but did it ever exist?

Spring 2023