When Cooking Can Kill
Traditional cookstoves are being recognized as a major health hazard.
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Improving Household Balance Sheets
The Citi Foundation shifts its grantmaking operations to offer hands-on financial training.
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Investing to stop disasters before they start can save lives and money.
Weathering Climate Change: The Role of Local Currencies
Local currency systems could strengthen metro economies and provide funds to address climate change and other urban problems.
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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
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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.