Empowering Women at the Grassroots
In many parts of the world, corporations today are cultivating partnerships with locally rooted organizations that promote a multi-faceted approach to women’s empowerment. Includes magazine extras.
Social Issues - Articles
Using Economic Forces to Conserve Nature
Conservationists are devising new ways to strategically use financial incentives—such as conservation easements—to preserve nature.
The Embedded Enterprise
To reach base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurs need to align their business models with customers’ lives.
Adventures in Adaptation
One funder’s willingness to shift course strategically has been crucial to sustaining a decade-long education initiative.
School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.
If It Does Good, Feel It
Benefiting emotionally from altruistic behavior doesn’t lessen—indeed, it increases—other people’s regard for that behavior.
A “Value Added” Evaluation
Teachers who help boost students’ test scores also have a notable impact on students’ long-term outcomes.
Ends and Means
In the way that people think about end-of-life care, moral and economic motives converge and commingle.
Review
Past Isn’t Always Prologue
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
Review
A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.