Listening to African Youth
Effective social change stems from listening to African youth, confronting the realities of poverty from their perspectives and on their terms.
Economic Development Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Giving Girls a Real Start
Savings and loan associations run entirely by youth represent an innovation in helping them learn to save, manage money and develop new skills.
Namibia Experiments with Aid for All
The world’s first universal cash transfer program is in Namibia and provides cash with no strings attached.
Lessons in Courage
Against all odds, the Afghan Institute of Learning educates women and girls in a war-torn society.
Podcast
Priya Haji - Creating a Social Enterprise
When Priya Haji put her mind to helping reduce global poverty, social entrepreneurship took a quantum leap. In this university podcast, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, the plucky founder of World of Good shares how she created a social enterprise that now empowers women in communities around the world by helping them sell their artisan goods in stores and online. She talks about strategies for using educated consumer choice and inspiring business competition to do good.
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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.