Educational Entrepreneurship
Educational reformers discuss the importance of innovation in education through social entrepreneurship, with case studies of post-Hurricane Katrina education policies.
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Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Concrete Ways for the US to Move “Beyond the Line” When It Measures Poverty
What would it take to implement “next-generation” poverty measures in the United States?
Digging for Ponies
Two years after the spectacular failure in the financial markets, it’s getting even more difficult to look on the bright side.
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Environmental Sustainabililty and Water Supply
Peter Gleick explains how and why the world is in a water crisis that is leading to a disconnect between supply and demand
Questions to Address Youth Unemployment
We need to spur fresh thinking in this field even as we test and evaluate diverse approaches that promote youth economic empowerment in developing countries.
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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.