Human Rights
Law Without Lawyers
Timap for Justice trains ordinary citizens to provide legal assistance in a country—Sierra Leone—where legal professionals are scarce.
Tag: Law
Social Entrepreneurship
Implications of First-Stage Scaling on Operations
Preparing a social enterprise to scale requires fundamental adaptions of the business model and approach to ensure success. Part two of a three-part series.
Review
Human Rights
Safety as a Civil Right
Lawless violence in the developing world is a plague that undermines efforts to end extreme poverty.
Government
Using Data to Change Gun Policy
The Joyce Foundation is finding success with gun violence prevention through policy efforts, using research that sheds light on causes and trends.
Health
People, Planet, Profit ... Religion?
How legal challenges to the contraceptive mandate implicate social enterprise.
Business
The Rise and Struggles of Social Enterprise in 2013
The whirlwind year for social enterprise saw new investments, corporate forms, and business models.
Civil Society
A New Model for Community Action
The Sandy Hook Promise nonprofit looks to the local community, technology, and innovation to develop a national movement for preventing gun violence.
Human Rights
Blurred Images, Better Futures
Software from a group called Ultrasafe Ultrasound promises to make it harder to practice sex-selective abortion.
Health
An Rx for Surplus Meds
The Dispensary of Hope is distributing unused pharmaceuticals to patients who need them.
Health
CHANGE Takes Time
The long, hard struggle to alter US policy on HIV/AIDS assistance shows that advocacy can deliver a real payoff.