Microfinance
Broken Rules, Better Loans?
Loan officers’ discretion plays a large role in determining the success of a micro-lending organization.
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Economic Development
Tackling Financial Exclusion
How to provide sustainable banking solutions for low-income consumers in the United States and abroad.
Technology & Design
Taking Mobile Money to the Next Level
For mobile money services to evolve, providers need to support all the activities that go on before, during, and after customers make payments.
Technology & Design
The Challenge of Scaling Digitally
The role of emerging technologies in traditionally “high-touch” development organizations—insights from BRAC’s recent Frugal Innovation Forum.
Social Entrepreneurship
Ambition to Audacity: Takeaways from the 2014 Skoll World Forum
Social entrepreneurship is getting bolder.
Measuring Social Impact
Clear Measurement Counts
A commitment to impact evaluation is the mark of a nonprofit organization that takes its work seriously.
Measuring Social Impact
Big Impact vs. Big Promises
Many charities claim more impact than cash transfers. How many deliver?
Nonprofits
Transformative Scale: The Future of Growing What Works
Nine strategies to deliver impact at a scale that truly meets needs.
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Emerging Pathways to Transformative Scale
The cofounder of and a consultant at The Bridgespan Group elaborate on important strategies for scaling up social impact.
Impact Investing
Impact Investments Show Promising Returns
Two new studies provide insights on good financial returns from a range of impact investments.