Impact Accounting Has an Equity Problem
Is water in Sweden really 25 times more valuable than water in Mauritania?
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An Abundance of Capacity
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
Scaling Community-Grown Solutions
What savings groups can teach the social sector about partnering with governments for systems change.
Laying the Groundwork for Government-Led Poverty Reduction
Four priorities for NGOs turning to local government partnerships in the face of funding cuts to help build lasting, large-scale solutions to poverty.
Retire ‘Foreign Assistance’
Development aid is not a handout but a catalyst for partnership in global stability.
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Beyond the Poverty Line
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
Beyond ‘X Number Served’
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.