Mapping Word of Mouth
Spreading messages in remote villages is a matter of understanding the patterns by which villagers connect with each other.
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Filling Out the Middle
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs targets a "missing" segment in emerging economies.
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A Get-Rich Way to Help the Poor
There's money to be made by selling "ruthlessly affordable" products to the world's 2.7 billion poorest people.
Getting Results for Afghan Women
A conversation with philanthropist Connie Duckworth, founder of ARZU Studio Hope.
Quality Distribution for Commercial Success
How an organization distributes a life-improving technology matters more to its commercial success than the product itself.
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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.