Impact Investing
Tackling Changing Markets with Enterprise Community Partners
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Tag: Housing
Civil Society
Bridging the Generations
Older people and foster families are forming mutually supportive communities, with help from a group called Generations of Hope.
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Economic Development
Confronting Suburban Poverty in America
Confronting Suburban Poverty in America offers a new look at American poverty as well as recommendations for combating it.
Economic Development
Poverty’s New Home
Poverty is growing in US suburbs, but for service providers, does it matter where the poor live?
Urban Development
Environmentally Friendly Housing for the Masses
Existing base-of-the-pyramid construction models must change.
Technology & Design
Calling for a Triple Bottom Line Design Metric
A fledgling program trains designers to consider the ecological, economic, and social issues shaping the built environment.
Urban Development
Housing the Homeless
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.
Philanthropy
Local Resources for Local Needs
A look at Silicon Valley’s surprising disconnect and opportunities that all local funders should consider.
Philanthropy
High Stakes Donor Collaborations
Pioneering groups of foundations and philanthropists have pooled their talent and resources to help solve social sector problems too big for any one to tackle alone.
Urban Development
Habitat Builds Out Its Vision
In the aftermath of the US housing crisis, Habitat for Humanity is working to build not just affordable homes, but affordable communities.