Nonprofit Management
When the Rhythm Changes, So Must the Dance
Why careful listening is important to starting and scaling positive social change.
Tag: Africa
Advocacy
Scrutinizing ONE’s “Secret Sauce” for Global Social Change
How a global NGO has fought extreme poverty using a formula that mixes pragmatic incrementalism and practical idealism with pop culture.
Economic Development
Making Cash Pay Off
GiveDirectly relies on high tech and hard data to test whether large cash transfers can alleviate extreme poverty.
Business
Microinsurance: Scaling Through Peer Learning
Insurers in Peru and South Africa are learning from each other how to reach low-income clients and help break the cycle of poverty.
Civil Society
The Promise of Mandatory Community Service
How a little-known tradition that helped rebuild Rwanda could help the rest of us.
Design Thinking
Design Thinking for Accountability
A new community justice system in Liberia emerges from a design-thinking approach.
Technology & Design
The Challenge of Scaling Digitally
The role of emerging technologies in traditionally “high-touch” development organizations—insights from BRAC’s recent Frugal Innovation Forum.
Foundations
Reflection Through Narrative
How international organizations gain insight, innovation, and internal alignment through story.
Philanthropy
GiveThoughtfully: It Depends on Your Point of View
Bringing a discussion of cash transfers in for a landing.
Philanthropy
Broadening the Aperture of Measurement
What research can and does tell us about unconditional cash transfers.