Tag: Human Capital
Global Issues
The Gift of Time
Careful product design enabled Days for Girls to create a solution that empowers its users at a critical stage of their lives. Includes magazine extras.
Review
Social Entrepreneurship
The Insight of Outsiders
In many cases, the people who can change an organization are those who don’t “fit in” there.
Review
Social Entrepreneurship
Lending Out Wisdom
A memoir by the founder of Kiva highlights the passion that marks the life of a social entrepreneur.
Economic Development
Source of Opportunity
Sama Group, a social enterprise that connects disadvantaged people with digital work, is expanding its reach to the United States.
Economic Development
Lifting Up Day Labor
A social enterprise called In Every Story brings better pay—and a spirit of empathy—to a highly marginalized workforce.
Nonprofit Management
What Holds Women Back?
In the nonprofit sector, occupational segregation can adversely affect women’s chances of moving into managerial positions.
Review
Civil Society
A New Vision for Elder Care
Can the emergence of a “Caring Majority” help meet the needs of an aging US population?
Socially Responsible Business
Bringing Respect for People to the World’s Sweatshops
Those advocating social change through multinational corporations need to raise their expectations.
Review
Economic Development
A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.