There’s No G-D-P in “A Better Economy”
Shifting the focus away from GDP would lead to real economic progress.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Pushing MOOCs the Last Mile
Online education is already changing the way people learn all over the world, but is it reaching the populations that can benefit most?
Imagine Trying to Get a Loan Without a Financial Identity
InVenture enables people in India and Kenya to send their financial data via SMS and get a simple financial overview of their monetary lives.
What Price Democracy?
A slippery slope: from good-willed private philanthropy in support of public goals to a system in which private goals predominate.
Tsunami Revisited: Stories and Recovery for Today
A review of the upcoming film “The Impossible” through the eyes of a disaster recovery philanthropist.
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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.