Mentoring India’s Youth
The Indian higher education system centers on one test. Avanti Fellows seeks to make the system more accessible to talented but underprivileged students.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Stopping Child Porn
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
The Power of Many
The Tahirih Justice Center multiplies its impact by creatively using pro bono attorneys.
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The Quintessential Entrepreneur
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One Villager, One Vote
Direct participation by Indonesian villagers proves that process matters, even when outcomes don't change.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
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.
What Is Community Anyway?
Our understanding of community can help funders and evaluators identify, understand, and strengthen the communities they work with.