How to Help a Social Startup Thrive
Five rules of the road from a seed-stage investor in financial technology for the underserved.
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Involving men in women’s economic development projects can lead to higher impact for women and changes in gender norms.
A Tax-Funded Nonprofit to Create Happy Families
Colombia’s Comfama has brought critical economic and social services to Medellín. Can this public-private hybrid continue to bolster the country’s growing middle class?
360-Degree Development
Swades Foundation is working to break nonprofit community development efforts out of their silos in India.
The Art of the Development Deal
The Trump administration can use foreign aid to further American interests and improve the lives of people around the world.
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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.