Fueling Growth
Riders for Health has created a novel approach to maintaining health transport vehicles in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Five-Digit Giving
How texting became young donors’ preferred way to make charitable donations.
Big Payoffs from Small Savings
SaveTogether wants to foster the savings habit among low-income Americans.
Containing a Global Health Care Crisis
Used shipping containers become health care clinics in the developing world.
Financing Freedom
Microlending in leprosy colonies frees residents from poverty, shame, and isolation.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
For Love or Lucre
A veteran social entrepreneur provides a guide to those who are thinking through the thorny question of whether to create a nonprofit, a for-profit, or something in between.
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
A New Type of Hybrid
Social entrepreneurs have taken the hybrid model to a new level, crafting it into a single structure that can operate as both a for-profit and a nonprofit.