Individual Giving
A New Take on Tithing
Too often, individuals make decisions about how much money to donate to charitable causes on an ad hoc basis. As a result, many people give less money than they can actually afford.
Tag: Poverty
Understanding why people are poor and innovative ways to alleviate poverty
Podcast
Leadership
Cheryl Dorsey - Investing in Worldwide Social Change
In the early 1990s, Cheryl Dorsey got a fellowship from Echoing Green to launch the Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit that provides basic medical and outreach services to at-risk residents of inner-city Boston neighborhoods. Now president of Echoing Green, Dorsey talks with Globeshakers host Tim Zak in an audio interview about the challenge of building on the impressive track record of one of the world's leading investors and supporters of worldwide social change.
Podcast
Health
Dr. Paul Farmer - Partners In Health
Recipient of the 9th Annual Heinz Award for the Human Condition, Paul Farmer is a medical doctor and a professor of anthropology at Harvard's medical school. He shuttles between Harvard and Haiti, where he maintains a practice at Clinique Bon Saveur, a charity hospital he founded. Farmer talks in this audio interview with Globeshakers host Tim Zak about the challenges and rewards of providing healthcare to the poorest of the poor, and the evolving, innovative models for getting drugs to those who need them most.
Economic Development
Carving out a Niche
A Czech social enterprise uses woodworking to help drug addicts.
Social Entrepreneurship
Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies
Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better.
Nonprofit Management
15 minutes with Jonathan Reckford
Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.
Philanthropy
Charity vs. Philanthropy
Is charity to weak and sentimental, what philanthropy is to rational and practical?
Philanthropy
Plus a Change
Three basic problems with philanthropy's attempts to address the issue of persistent poverty in this country.