Social Enterprise
Filling In the Gap
How creative collaborations worldwide are deploying capital and support for promising social enterprises.
Tag: International Development
Big Picture
Before the Backlash, Let’s Redefine User-Centered Design
We must better understand user-centered design’s limitations—not just its strengths—in the context of international development. And we must adapt it from its original uses designing commercial products to solving for social good.
Global Issues
The Internet of Things Is Now a Thing
Several ventures now under way in developing countries show how networks of connected machines can drive economic growth.
Global Issues
Back to School
In Ethiopia, a foundation-led initiative uses accelerated learning techniques to give young people a second chance at an education.
Nonprofits
Foreign Disentanglement
To counter restrictions on NGO activity, local groups need to reduce their dependence on international financial support.
Big Picture
Fostering Behavior Change for Better Health
How a patient-centered approach and tools from the private sector can greatly enhance global health programs that require changes in attitudes or behavior.
Social Entrepreneurship
Doing Less, Better
The real competitive advantage of social enterprise, compared to traditional charities isn’t revenue generation—it’s the ability to focus on fewer things.
Big Picture
Why We Love to Hate Nonprofits
Three common and harmful prejudices against charitable organizations, and how nonprofits can subvert them.
Nonprofits
Why the Social Sector Needs the Scientific Method
A flawed study on deworming children—and new studies that expose its errors—reveal why activists and philanthropists alike need safeguards.