Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab helps identify investment-worthy business people in developing countries.
Global Issues Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health
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Microfinance for Wealthy Countries
The UK microcredit business Fair Finance is paving the road for the growth of microfinance in the developed world.
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Misapplying Theory
In his latest book, David Sloan Wilson argues that evolutionary theory should be used to illuminate and tackle urban problems.
Petition Power
Change.org, a five-year-old San Francisco-based startup, has emerged as one of the leading platforms for online activism.
Private Schools for the Poor
All across the developing world, poor parents are investing in low-cost private education for their children—and seeing positive results.
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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.