Impact Investors Are Raising Their Game
To bring impact investing into the mainstream, the World Economic Forum is using market-simulated games to advance the conversations.
To bring impact investing into the mainstream, the World Economic Forum is using market-simulated games to advance the conversations.
The nonprofit Fight for Peace uses boxing to create a dialogue with hard-to-reach urban youth.
Will this Digital Literacy Corps be a 21st Century Peace Corps?
It’s time for a new generation of social change leaders to move beyond occupying Wall Street to transform it.
It is still necessary today to protect against the power of factions; it is vital this critical aspect of American democracy is restored.
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.
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.
Market solutions to poverty, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,” portray poor people as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers. Yet this rosy view of poverty-stricken people is not only wrong, but also harmful.
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
Jeffrey Sachs believes we must lift a billion-plus people out of poverty while reducing our impact on the environment.