A New Business Model for Women in the West Bank
Fidaa El Tunky has created the first grassroots venture capital project for rural women in the whole of the Arab region.
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The Future of Fair Trade…Is There One?
If Fair Trade coffee quality doesn’t improve, the Direct Trade movement will quickly become a growing threat.
Social Innovation in Washington, D.C.
A look at what’s needed next to create the right policy environment for innovation and results.
Global Media Needs Social Enterprise
Global leaders should begin to consider a stronger relationship with local social enterprises.
Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers
Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.
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Drowning in Data
Funders are calling for more program evaluation, but nonprofits are often collecting dubious data, at great cost to themselves and ultimately to the people they serve.
Microfinance Misses Its Mark
Despite the hoopla over microfinance, it doesn't cure poverty. But stable jobs do. If societies are serious about helping the poorest of the poor, they should stop investing in microfinance and start supporting large, labor-intensive industries.
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.
Do No Evil
Google DotOrg launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the results have been less than stellar.