Puerto Rico in Peril
Puerto Rico has effectively declared bankruptcy, putting government programs and social progress at risk.
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Communities cannot and should not wait for external forces to bridge local opportunity divides.
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The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur
In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education
History proves that big financing ideas can triumph over seemingly insurmountable global challenges.
The Generalizability Puzzle
Rigorous impact evaluations tell us a lot about the world, not just the particular contexts in which they are conducted. Open access to this article is made possible by MIT.
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The Profit in Nonprofit
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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.