Economic Development
Review: Building Wealth
Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
Review
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
Podcast
Economic Development
Jessica Jackley Flannery - Redefining Microfinance in the Internet Era
Based in Silicon Valley, Kiva is an innovative social enterprise that uses the internet to connect lenders with small businesses around the world. In this audio interview, Jessica Flannery talks with Design for Change host Sheela Sethuraman about starting the organization, and reflects on some of the reasons for its rapid growth and success.
Health
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Health Partnerships
Step aside, Stephen Covey. Kent Buse and Andrew M. Harmer have discovered seven new highly effective habits. And theirs may help rid the world of its more deadly diseases, rather than just upping people's productivity.
Urban Development
Review: Random Family
Waller offers an intimate exposé of crime and drugs in the inner city.
Philanthropy
Live from CoF: Remittances—The New Way to Alleviate Poverty
Remittances dwarf traditional forms of aid to less developed nations.
Philanthropy
Live from CoF: Immigration and Philanthropy
If we take away the jobs of undocumented workers, how will they survive?
Economic Development
Review: Despite Good Intentions
International development aid should be dissolved, argues Dichter.
Review
Nonprofit Management
Going Global
The leaders of international humanitarian organizations, such as CARE and Oxfam talk candidly about management strategy, organizational goals, advocacy, accountability, and partnerships.
Podcast
Social Enterprise
John Sage - Social Enterprise, Fair Trade and Coffee
Combining idealism with a genuine love of business, John Sage cofounded the social enterprise company Pura Vida, one of the largest distributors of fair trade organic coffee in the world. In this University podcast, he discusses his mission to improve the lives of people in coffee-growing regions. Sage explains how Pura Vida works at the intersection of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, showing how the two can be blended to generate both revenues and social good.
Essentials of Social Innovation
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.