Small Is Beautiful
Banks in Mexico say that microloans are helping the poor while boosting their profits.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Simply Successful
A Boston nonprofit's simple mission attracts sustained support and helps working-poor families.
Review: Bootstrap Dreams
The emergence of microenterprise development programs, internationally and in the United States.
The Workings of Class
Though rarely discussed in America, the subtle differences between social classes lead to major misunderstandings in the classroom, the workplace, and in many nonprofit settings.
Local Heroes
How Mexican immigrants have forged complex government partnerships to improve living conditions back home.
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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.