Taking a Charter Flight
In one prominent effort to reinvent public schools, promise and performance don't necessarily match up.
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Social Issues - Articles
How Fair Trade Grew
Variances in the experience of producer countries strongly affect how fair trade markets have evolved.
Social Work as a Social Wedge
In China, a new kind of NGO has started to embed the values of civil society in its provision of social services.
The Stories That NGOs Tell
Traditional aid organizations and newer, more volunteer-driven groups view their work in notably different ways.
The Leadership Model of Philanthropy
Focus, flexibility, and fortitude—the three pillars of philanthropic organizations looking to create systemic change.
The New Prize: Long-term Training and Engagement
Prize and challenge designers are focusing on training future social innovators and creating communities of engaged problem solvers.
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Overfished Ocean Strategy
Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World is a book about business innovation and the specific principles that allow companies to navigate empty economic oceans with grace.
Approaching Food Waste from All Sides
New technology-enabled solutions are trying to match the scale of food recovery to the scale of industrial food distribution.
Moving Toward Multi-Dimensional Democracy
If the Hewlett Foundation’s Madison Initiative wants to strengthen American democracy, it needs to adopt a more multi-layered democratic theory.
Community Development Needs a Quarterback
We need to take a new, more holistic approach to creating economic opportunity.