A Win-Win for Haiti

By Suzie Boss 1

Partners in Health and Abbott Laboratories are building a new plant in Corporant, Haiti to produce a therapeutic food called Nourimanba.

The Race Against CO2

By Tamara Straus

The Chinese government's new five-year plan calls for increasing the energy efficiency of new buildings.

Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis

By Daniel Stid & Willa Seldon 2

How human services nonprofits can stay afloat and advance their missions during a time of government cutbacks.

Hall of Mirrors

Review By Jonathan Schorr 1

Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools by Steven Brill

Winter 2012

Global Issues

Redefining Education in the Developing World

By Mark J. Epstein & Kristi Yuthas 53

A new approach that builds relevant marketplace, entrepreneurship, and health care skills is needed.

Public Services 2.0

By Jessica Ruvinsky

Technology can empower citizens to co-create some government services.

Global Diseases, Local Needs

By Jessica Ruvinsky 3

The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.

Governing Innovation

By Corey Binns 1

New York’s Center for Economic Opportunity tests new antipoverty programs from the mayor’s office.

Circles of Change

By Tracy A. Thompson 6

Lending circles, self-help groups, and study circles are among the oldest and most effective tools for creating personal and social change.