Health-Clinic Entrepreneurs
South Africa’s Unjani Non Profit Corporation is boosting community health by helping nurses launch their own clinics.
Social Issues - Articles
From Eats to Electricity
A British entrepreneur hopes that by transforming food waste into biogas, his plant can help a community gain a sense of local environmental stewardship.
Civics for the Internet Age
A new, bipartisan curriculum aims to help US students make sense of a highly polarized country.
A Different View of Mapping
New platforms are using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to challenge Google’s dominance over how we see the world.
From the Ground Up
Top-down development doesn't work. What's needed is a "pull model" created by locals, funders, and government agencies working together as equals.
Creating a Social Business
How Jaipur Living developed a global rug business, one weaver at a time, and lifted thousands out of poverty.
Case Study: Saathi
Hindi for “friend,” the Saathi Internet program enables women in rural India to help other women improve their lives and livelihoods.
Case Study: Arghyam
Arghyam, a grantmaking foundation, takes a data-driven approach to helping transform India’s water and sanitation systems.
Scaling With Evidence
When monitoring and evaluation are in an organization’s DNA, as they are at SNEHA, it’s much easier to create partnerships with government agencies and NGOs.
Water Is Power
A project undertaken by Indian NGO Gram Vikas shows how efforts to solve a particular social problem can have a far reaching impact on an entire social system.