Pumping Prosperity
ApproTEC’s pumps are designed and marketed with an understanding of the culture and psychology of African farmers.
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Nifty Success
Teaching inner-city kids business skills to build their confidence and aspirations.
The Working Poor
The working poor are neither helpless nor omnipotent.
The Humanitarian Divide
A Cambodian 'nonprofit company' peddles digitization -- with a social edge.
Too Much Money, Too Quickly
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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
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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.