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Understanding why people are out of work and innovative ways to provide them with jobs

Solving for Shelter: Matching Income Volatility with Housing Stability

Housing programs and policies implicitly assume households have stable incomes. Here’s some ways to change them.

Impact Investing: Four Opportunities for 2016

Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.

Precarious Work and the Employment-based Safety Net

By H. Luke Shaefer 3

Welfare reform to encourage work doesn’t take into account how unstable jobs have become, especially for the poorest.

The Promise and Peril of an “Outcomes Mindset”

By Patrick Lester 4

If government is going to champion outcomes-based policies, let’s learn from our mistakes.

Encouraging Innovation Everywhere

By Shruthi Baskaran & Khanjan Mehta 1

Youth voices in resource-constrained environments suggest that understanding socio-economic context is an important factor in encouraging innovation.

Four Strategies for Staying on the Path to Scale

By James W. Shepard, Jr. 1

Strategy, capital, and people are essential to scaling an organization’s work and impact, but they’re not sufficient—to transform those crucial resources into the desired results, nonprofit leaders need to redesign their organizations too.

Organizational Development

Optimizing International Corporate Volunteer Programs

By Nafessa Kassim, Mark Horoszowski & Winnie Karanu

Four steps to making a positive difference in the field—and developing valuable leadership skills along the way.

Economic Development

Charting New Pathways Out of Poverty

By Peter Manzo 1

If we’re going to help poor families gain agency, dignity, and mobility, we need poverty measurements that point the way to a decent standard of living.