Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
SELCO caters to India’s hundreds of millions of rural poor with solar-powered energy solutions carefully customized to their needs. Now the social enterprise is sharing its model with others around the world.
Years of implementing, studying, and iterating on cash transfer programs have revealed some important lessons about achieving long-term impact.
A look at how the Tamarack Institute united the efforts of local collective impact initiatives across Canada to accelerate systems change in support of a living wage.
While blended finance has the potential to accelerate development in India, there are bottlenecks holding back its potential.
Innovative approaches to addressing social stigma related to menstruation, led by women in Japan and China, are making the issue visible and highlighting the role it plays in gender inequality.
Babban Gona provides the capital and means to move Nigeria’s poor farmers from a life of subsistence to economic security—and a model for alleviating poverty across Africa.
Combining traditional impact investment approaches with investment in advocacy is the only way businesses and investors can fuel meaningful social and environmental progress.
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities show promise. But do we have the patience to wait for them to work?
Research does no good if its insights are irrelevant or not applied. Ensuring that evidence influences policy requires developing the right ecosystem and levers for accountability.
Partnerships between nonprofit service providers and government agencies to address homelessness are more effective when the former play a leading role.
