Where Credit Is Due?
Credit unions focused specifically on financing environmental projects are beginning to offer a much-needed source of loans.
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A Fresh Market
In providing an app for people on food stamps, FreshEBT is serving a population that most tech startups tend to overlook.
Prison Reform Goes Local
A MacArthur-backed project is funding 40 local jurisdictions' efforts to reduce their jailed populations.
Health Care in the Mohallas
An ambitious plan by Delhi's local government aims to give the city's poor better access to health care through neighborhood clinics.
Dance Revolution
The Wooden Floor is licensing its successful model of using arts education to break the cycle of poverty.
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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.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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 Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.