Faith in Fair Trade
How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.
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Green Fire
A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.
Making It to McDonald’s
How Fair Trade coffee moved out of its niche and into the most mainstream market of all.
One Buyer at a Time
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.
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Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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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.