An Arab Spring for Entrepreneurs?
In Tunisia, the Souk At-tanmia project provides funding and technical support to budding entrepreneurs.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Manifest Density
Investment in "hyperdense" cities is, according to one writer, the key to solving many problems that afflict US society.
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Divided Minds, Divided Cultures
To address social conflicts, we must learn to balance "independent" and "interdependent" selves, two cultural psychologists argue.
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Designing the Digital City
Internet technology can help us to connect, globally and otherwise, but only if we structure it well.
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Breakthrough Leadership
The saga of Molly Melching and Tostan, her Africa-based organization, illustrates the power of community-led 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.