Investing in Enterprises That Work for Everyone
Impact investors can support a more just economy by prioritizing alternative ownership enterprises that shift power away from shareholders to workers, the community, and the planet.
Economic Development Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
Inside Oklahoma’s Innovation Rush
What two regions have learned about implementing an historic federal grant.
When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption
Development philanthropists should focus on building the productive capacity of entire countries to achieve large-scale economic transformation, rather than enabling a few individuals to increase their consumption.
Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?
Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior.
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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.