Economic Development
Digging for Ponies
Two years after the spectacular failure in the financial markets, it’s getting even more difficult to look on the bright side.
Tag: Youth
Economic Development
Questions to Address Youth Unemployment
We need to spur fresh thinking in this field even as we test and evaluate diverse approaches that promote youth economic empowerment in developing countries.
Podcast
Global Issues
Closing Achievement Gaps
How the civil rights and education reform movements are similar.
Social Entrepreneurship
Forums for Intellectual Nutrition
Self-awareness and recognition of bias may be the first steps to broadening horizons, but few organizations are truly cross-functional, socially, as well as economically diverse.
Podcast
Global Issues
Scaling Impact in Education
Education entrepreneurs share how innovative ideas, models, and policies may be focused and scaled so that more children can get the education they deserve.
Business
Digital Job Creation for Youth
We need new ideas and models in digital work that can be scaled to meet global outsourcing demands.
Socially Responsible Business
A Bigger Pie
Mission Pie, a for-profit bakery and café, supports local farmers while training at-risk kids.
Social Entrepreneurship
Embracing Practical Solutions
A $25 baby warmer might stop the tragedy of 450 low-birth-weight babies dying every hour in the developing world.
Urban Development
Putting More Fun into Play
In a new playground in Manhattan, "play associates" will encourage youthful creativity while reminding parents and nannies to take a giant step back.
Nonprofits
Shared Services Alliances: Part 3
Early Learning Ventures Alliances is a community-based partnership model allows small early care providers to share costs and deliver services efficiently.