Becoming a Woman
A growing number of Maasai in Kenya are ending female circumcision and replacing it with other coming-of-age rituals.
Social Issues - Articles
Rethinking How Students Succeed
A wave of noncognitive skill initiatives holds promise for making teachers more effective and students more successful. Includes a new response from Raikes Foundation Co-founders Jeff and Tricia Raikes.
Turning Sideways to Close the Gap
How a change in perspective is helping one organization bridge the distance between mission and mission accomplished.
A National Growth Plan Rooted in One State’s Success
Why one successful youth program resisted the urge to expand too quickly.
Impact Bonds: A Scalable Solution to Sustainable Fisheries?
We need to move beyond donor funding and mobilize private capital to finance performance-based conservation.
The Gender Accelerator
Are startup accelerators the future for women and girls?
Teaching Marketplace Literacy with the Help of 3D Printing
A program developed in India to provide marketplace literacy aims for impact in Illinois
The Face of Poverty
A diagnostic framework for shaping innovation and scaling strategies.
The Case for Energy Abundance
An alternate paradigm for climate and energy.
Slowly Strangling Civil Society
How donor funding distorts civil society goals and priorities.