Education
15 Minutes with Alan Bersin
California’s secretary of education tackles the nation’s largest school system.
Tag: Government Programs
Innovations in federal, state, and local government programs
Philanthropy
Poor People or Poverty: Charity or Government
Nonprofits must find new ways to improve and defend government programs while popularizing a sense of public responsibility.
Government
As Luck Would Have It
Why the U.S. and Europe have such different social spending policies.
Podcast
Health
California’s Stem Cell Initiative - A Bridging the Gap Panel
In the 2004 general election, California voters approved Proposition 71 by a vote of 59 percent. The initiative established a $3 billion bond measure to create the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and fund stem cell research in the state of California. In this panel discussion, Prop 71 key players address the entrepreneurial challenges they have faced while pushing for a controversial, dramatic policy change.
Economic Development
Review: Bootstrap Dreams
The emergence of microenterprise development programs, internationally and in the United States.
Government
An Accidental Good
How savvy social entrepreneurs seized on a tax loophole to raise billions of corporate dollars for affordable housing.
Civil Society
From Roadblocks to Road Rage
Lessons on neighborhood cooperation from a neighborhood torn apart.