Impact Investing
Financing Broadband in Hard-to-Reach Communities
To close the digital divide, we need a capital market that powers community broadband.
Tag: Rural
Environment
Brewing Fertilizer From Food Waste
The Icelandic startup Melta transforms community food waste into fertilizer, with the goal of cutting emissions and promoting sustainable farming in Iceland.
Economic Development
CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.
A budding success story in East Texas offers lessons for other underserved rural regions, philanthropies interested in rural revitalization, and CDFIs pursuing pathways to better engage and serve rural communities.
sponsored
Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities
For all the formidable obstacles we faced in building the power of some of California’s most vulnerable residents, our experiences in isolated Del Norte County demonstrate what philanthropic support can do.
Podcast
Social Enterprise
Powering Needs, Empowering Lives
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.
Health
Ensuring Equitable Access to Vaccines
As the United States struggles to vaccinate everyone in the nation, governments and community-based organizations trying to eliminate barriers to access for high-risk, rural, and remote communities must consider geography, partnerships, language, schedules, and technology.
Design Thinking
An Insightful Collaboration
The social enterprise Smart Focus grounds their solutions to China’s rural vision-care crisis in research.