The Gender Accelerator
Are startup accelerators the future for women and girls?
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Teaching Marketplace Literacy with the Help of 3D Printing
A program developed in India to provide marketplace literacy aims for impact in Illinois
The Face of Poverty
A diagnostic framework for shaping innovation and scaling strategies.
Measuring Human Progress
A new report on California highlights how human well-being is a more relevant gauge of progress than economic metrics.
A Strategy for Alleviating Poverty
Why there is a renewed sense of urgency and optimism about place-based initiatives.
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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.