Technology
Giving Your Genius: A New Approach to Corporate Philanthropy
When companies deploy the same processes they use to create commercial value to create philanthropic value, they can truly help charities achieve their social missions.
Tag: Literacy
Education
When Schooling Doesn’t Mean Learning
In India, a simple, citizen-led assessment is helping citizens gauge children’s learning levels—and challenging a deep-seated belief that going to school means getting an education.
Education
Embedding Education in Everyday Life
A growing number of organizations are experimenting with ways to embed learning in everyday encounters as a way to connect with hard-to-reach youth and adults.
IMPACT INDIA
Case Study: Saathi
Hindi for “friend,” the Saathi Internet program enables women in rural India to help other women improve their lives and livelihoods.
IMPACT INDIA
Photo Essay: The Many Faces of Learning
India has the most youth of any country, and one of the most diverse, making education one of its biggest challenges.
Education
Using Technology to Teach the Art of Asking Questions
Technological innovations have the potential to transform education, but only if they encourage a more active learning environment that fosters critical thinking.
Education
How Can We “Leapfrog” Educational Outcomes?
Innovations will need to address inequity and embrace a broader range of skills than most schools currently teach.
Education
Poor Kids Learn Like Rich Kids and All the Kids in Between
In an era when low-income children are offered different learning opportunities than rich children, we must work to provide all kids the high-quality educational experience that the 21st century demands.
Video
Social Enterprise
Education in Afghanistan
After developing a new building technique, the nonprofit ARZU Studio Hope used the technique to build a preschool in Afghanistan as part of its mission to support education for women and children.
Video
Social Enterprise
A Profitable Nonprofit
Connie Duckworth, founder and CEO of ARZU Studio Hope, discusses her goals for the organization and her intention to run ARZU as a “profitable nonprofit.”