When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them
A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.
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Funding Liberation
To create the world we want, we must build a wealth management system rooted in belonging for all.
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Community Data Is Trusted Evidence
Why our overreliance on dominant data is failing communities and how community data provides a solution.
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No Magic Bullet
An excerpt from Poor Relief against the one-size-fits-all solutionism of cash transfers
A New AI Career Ladder
The changing nature of jobs means workers need new education and training infrastructure to match.
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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.