Calling for a Triple Bottom Line Design Metric
A fledgling program trains designers to consider the ecological, economic, and social issues shaping the built environment.
Urban Development Social innovations that improve the health of cities
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Housing the Homeless
Common Ground helps reduce the number of people sleeping on New York City streets by opening residential buildings for the homeless and impaired.
Why Nonprofits Should Operate Commuter Trains
The nonprofit sector has taken on the management of a wide range of heretofore government services. Some portions of mass transit should be next.
The Future City
Delivering change in urban economies.
A New Approach to India’s Water Sanitation Crisis: Part 2
A two-part series on using systems mapping to predict a city’s capacity for adopting change.
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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.
Revitalizing Struggling American Cities
Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
How Good Is Your Evidence?
A new, and easier, scientific approach to determining the quality of evidence can help the social sector better assess—and therefore better address—social problems.
Reconnecting Youth in America’s Cities
A new report examines the relationship between place and race, and disconnected youth in the United States.
Outrun the Recession
The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.