Social Entrepreneurship
Embracing Practical Solutions
A $25 baby warmer might stop the tragedy of 450 low-birth-weight babies dying every hour in the developing world.
Tag: Childcare
Nonprofits
Shared Services Alliances: Part 3
Early Learning Ventures Alliances is a community-based partnership model allows small early care providers to share costs and deliver services efficiently.
Collaboration
Shared Services Alliances: Part 2
A look at nonprofit back-office integrations, or Shared Service Alliances.
Economic Development
Lucrative but Deadly
As parents spend more time raising their profitable coffee crop, they spend less time attending to their children's needs.
Nonprofits
Shared Services Alliances: Part 1
Creating back office alliances—an interview with John Weiser, a principal with the nonprofit technical assistance organization Opportunities Exchange.
Podcast
Health
Vera Cordeiro Rio - Breaking the Cycle of Poverty-Related Illness
When Dr. Vera Cordeiro Rio worked at Hospital da Lagoa in Rio de Janeiro, she witnessed a constant admission/re-admission cycle in childcare treatment. To break that cycle, she gathered medical community volunteers to form Renascer, addressing root causes that prevent families from providing adequate care. In this audio interview, join host Sheela Sethuraman as she learns how Cordeiro Rio translated her passion translated into a methodology that is quickly sweeping through Brazil and the world.