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Vanishing NGOs in Bosnia leave lessons in their wake.
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A Czech social enterprise uses woodworking to help drug addicts.
Choosing Mission Over Money
Sidebar to "Crisis Mentality:" giving for the long term.
The Hidden Cost of Paradise
Indigenous people are being displaced to create wilderness areas, to the detriment of all.
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How an all-natural Mexican farming cooperative is improving its community while making a bundle.
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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.