Wanted: New Frameworks for Urban Housing
As global base of the pyramid urban evictions intensify, we need good quality, affordable housing that creates attractive profit opportunities.
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Innovations in public services that promote equity and opportunity (more)
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It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.
“Nothing About Us Without Us” Approach Transforms Foster Care in Florida
By understanding what beneficiaries think works and doesn’t work, foundations and nonprofits can provide better programs.
Reality Time for Human Service Organizations
The recent collapse of Hull House is a reminder that the tectonic shifts underway in the human service sector cannot be avoided.
Too Poor to Earn? Changing Assumptions About the Ultra Poor
The best way to help the ultra poor is not by giving them a handout, but by giving them an opportunity.
Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis
How human services nonprofits can stay afloat and advance their missions during a time of government cutbacks.
Governing Innovation
New York’s Center for Economic Opportunity tests new antipoverty programs from the mayor’s office.
Philanthropy as Infrastructure?
As a society, we should not encourage the replacement of public responsibilities by private philanthropy.
Sixteen Days, Eight Cities, One Question
Solving social challenges requires working with people to develop the ideas that will enable them to live the lives they want.