Big Box Protests Can Be a Big Deal
Community activists have a lot of potential influence on whether large retailers enter a local market.
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Auditing the Auditors
Simple steps to reduce conflicts of interest can improve both pollution reporting and regulatory compliance.
Broken Rules, Better Loans?
Loan officers’ discretion plays a large role in determining the success of a micro-lending organization.
Survivor of an Acid Attack
Women and even girls continue to be the victims of acid attacks by men in Bangladesh and other countries.
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A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
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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.