Socially Responsible Business

If the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, They Have a Head Start in Cambodia

By Stephanie Wolcott 3

A Cambodian restaurant trains former street youth for jobs in the hospitality industry.

Socially Responsible Business

A Unique Opportunity for Socially Responsible Businesses

By Ned Hallowell 2

Nonprofits and socially responsible businesses can claim one distinct advantage to other sectors: the trust of the general public.

Education

Opening Up Pathways to Secondary Education

By Reeta Roy

We need to put secondary education on the global policy agenda. We also must create pathways to quality and relevant secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Impact Investing

Market-Minded Development

By Hima Batavia, Justin Chakma, Hassan Masum, & Peter Singer 5

Acumen Fund uses impact investing to tackle global poverty. It's approach has garnered attention, but does it change aid?

Health

Employment Power

By Laura Gehl

How a private-public-academic partnership is helping people with serious mental illnesses find and keep jobs.

Socially Responsible Business

Investing at the Bottom of the Ladder

By Jody Heymann 6

Companies that invest in their lowest-level employees are more productive and more profitable.

Urban Development

Here Comes the Neighborhood

By Suzie Boss

A low-income Cleveland neighborhood works together to revitalize the community in an environmentally responsible way.

Nonprofit Management

Generation Me at the Office

By Jessica Ruvinsky

Young workers are, on average, less self-less than previous generations. How will this affect the nonprofit sector?

Nonprofits

3 Reasons Why You Should Stay in Your First Nonprofit Job for at Least a Year

By Rosetta Thurman 5

If you do a great job and make the most of your network of peers and colleagues, you’ll be well on your way to creating a successful nonprofit career path.

Economic Development

Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa

By Reeta Roy

How do we promote bottom-up entrepreneurship in emerging economies?