Microfinance is bringing the world's poor the kind of service that used to be reserved for bank customers in developed countries. Drawing on the work and philosophy of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Alex Counts talks in this audio lecture about microfinance's social and financial impact to an audience of Stanford MBA students.
How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.
A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.
How Fair Trade coffee moved out of its niche and into the most mainstream market of all.
Aid organizations help build small businesses build capacity without asking whether people want the businesses’ products. As these stories show, successful programs start with real buyers.
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.
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.
