Microfinance
Broken Rules, Better Loans?
Loan officers’ discretion plays a large role in determining the success of a micro-lending organization.
Tag: Financial Inclusion
Economic Development
Tackling Financial Exclusion
How to provide sustainable banking solutions for low-income consumers in the United States and abroad.
Nonprofit Management
Transformative Scale Means “Crowding In”
We must develop and scale programs and ideas that harness the power of social movements.
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.
Measuring Social Impact
Measuring the Indirect Impacts of Market Innovators
Why measuring indirect impact matters and how on earth we can do it.
Collaboration
Engaging Underserved Consumers Through Community Groups
Eight community group-business partnership models for reaching underserved consumers.
Socially Responsible Business
Subsidizing Impact
The right formula for creating a socially beneficial enterprise often includes a strong dose of up-front philanthropic support
Social Entrepreneurship
Quality Distribution for Commercial Success
How an organization distributes a life-improving technology matters more to its commercial success than the product itself.
Health
Last Mile Gaps in the Affordable Care Act
Three massive and untapped entrepreneurial opportunities.
Social Entrepreneurship
Early Risks, Big Returns
Reconsidering what’s “investable” in impact investing.