Health
Healing From Trauma
Glasswing International teaches Latin American communities to understand and recover from the impacts of trauma induced by chronic and acute violence.
Podcast
Tag: Latin America
Podcast
Social Enterprise
A Fair Deal for Coffee Growers
Vega Coffee lifts up struggling coffee growers in Latin America by enabling them to roast, package, and ship their own beans directly to US customers—and reinvents the supply chain in the process.
Scaling
The Promise of Social Sector Franchising
The massive growth of commercial franchises like McDonald’s offers inspiration for scaling social impact. Although still very young, social sector franchising is spawning an array of successful enterprises that offer lessons for further expansion.
Collaboration
Civic Mobilization Infrastructure in an Age of Existential Threats
Brazilian civil society worked together to win basic income for the poor. Its success illustrates how organizations must interlock to secure rights and push for social change.
Leadership
Voluntarism and Unselfish Leadership
Selfless behavior of key individuals is critical to the development of local institutions for self-governance.
Design Thinking
Using Design Thinking to Tackle Climate Change When ‘What You Know No Longer Works’
As climate change creates new ambiguity problems for farmers, communities need to better understand and assess their own environments.
Impact Investing
In Latin America, Impact Finance Demonstrates Remarkable Progress and Untapped Potential
There is significant interest in impact investing in Latin America as a whole, but most of the financial activity occurs at the national level, providing an opportunity to develop diverse and country-spanning investments.
Human Rights
From Emancipation to Social Change
How do Latin American women not only defy gender norms to become entrepreneurs, but turn their own emancipation into societal change-making?
Human Rights
How Colombia Faces Its Past
States that undergo a process of transitional justice are selective about the international norms they adopt. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Human Rights
New Alliances for Human Rights
PROVEA is spreading the word about Venezuela’s political and economic crisis while building alliances in neighboring countries. From the What's Next department of the Summer 2019 issue.