Building a Culture of Opportunity Within Disadvantaged Communities
How the organization MORTAR is creating entrepreneurship opportunities for poor and minority communities.
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Economic Development Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, Returns, and Impact
How gender lens investing can contribute to economic prosperity and equal rights.
Want to Make America Prosperous Again? Bet on Nature, not Fossil Fuels
Land restoration, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture offer better investment returns and more US jobs than oil, gas, and coal.
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An Overview of Free Innovation
New findings on the large scale and importance of innovation by consumers fundamentally change how we understand the innovation process.
The Princess and the Pain Point
Four strategies for scale from a local mattress recycling effort that is going beyond waste reduction and expanding across the United States.
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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.