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Environmental Sustainability with World Water

Featuring an MIT/Stanford Venture Lab Event Panel

Experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector.

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Global Issues

The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee

By Colleen Haight 29

Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.

Founder of DonorsChoose.org Charles Best on his company and nonprofit management
Social Innovations

Grassroots Philanthropy in Schools

Featuring Charles Best

Founder of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity helping students in need, Charles Best talks about how he started the organization and what some of its challenges have been along the way.

Joe Minarik, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, on the U.S. budget deficit

Macroeconomic Perspective on the Budget Deficit

Featuring Joe Minarik

Joe Minarik, senior vice president of the Committee for Economic Development, talks about the macroeconomic perspective on the U.S. budget deficit and its impact on the US economy.

CraigConnects founder Craig Newmark on aligning nonprofits to increase efficacy
Social Innovations

Connecting Nonprofits

Featuring Craig Newmark

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tells us about how he started CraigConnects, chose areas to support, and selected nonprofits to focus on.