Lessons in Courage
Against all odds, the Afghan Institute of Learning educates women and girls in a war-torn society.
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Leap Forward for Social Enterprises
Rick Aubry is designing social enterprises that can succeed on a national scale.
LEED the Way
The LEED green-building certification system is one of the fastest growing nonprofits in America.
Grassroots Concrete
Build Change is shaking up construction practices in earthquake-prone areas.
Five New Nonprofit Voices to Follow
Five new, young blog voices from the nonprofit sector.
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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.