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Tackling Vision Care Disparities

By Melinda Tuan & Fay Twersky 1

How one nonprofit uses an NFL team’s celebrity to improve poor children’s eyesight - and life chances.

A Failure of Philanthropy

By Rob Reich 3

From the archives: American charity shortchanges the poor, and public policy is partly to blame.

Research Rules

By R. Christine Hershey & Andrew Posey

Why nonprofits should do their homework before communicating with the public.

No Market for Marketing

By Maia Szalavitz 1

Nonprofits do not use -- and often don't want -- for-profit marketing techniques.

All Fired Up

By Cliff Terry

How an insurance company helps its workers support their local fire departments.

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Drowning in Data

By Alana Conner Snibbe 9

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.

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Microfinance Misses Its Mark

By Aneel Karnani 46

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.