Microfinance
Microfinance and Ethics: Three Pivotal Questions
An exploration of questions central to the microfinance debate.
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
Social Entrepreneurship
Beyond Sexy
Let’s start telling social entrepreneurial aspirants the truth and get those who support the field financially to acknowledge that staying power and relationship-building are ineluctable partners to innovation. Part two of a series.
Human Rights
Assessing the Health Impacts of Immigration Policy
How detention and deportation policies harm the health and well-being of children and families.
Social Entrepreneurship
Impact Economy Lesson from Rural China
Building an impact economy at scale can help ensure that success and opportunity become the norm for children not the exception.
Economic Development
Taking Lessons from Africa’s Youth
Those who want a prosperous future for the continent need to engage—and listen to—its young leaders.
Impact Investing
Aligning Interests in Impact Investing
If we want to develop a new industry, alignment of interests is critical for long-term success.
Nonprofit Management
What Nonprofits Need
Three things that funders can learn from Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector Survey.
Socially Responsible Business
Mandatory CSR in India: A Bad Proposal
Looked at from the perspective of the political right, and the left, and the center, the proposed law making CSR mandatory is a really bad idea.
Health
Big Business and Healthcare: It’s Not About the Money
A global study of healthcare social enterprises shows that partnerships, not investment, are the key to healthcare innovation and new markets.
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Innovation for the Next 100 Years
The president of the Rockefeller Foundation explains what social innovation means to the foundation and how it is preparing for the next 100 years.