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An Entrepreneurial Workforce
India’s first and largest waste-picker cooperative has inspired community-wide recycling and sustainable living.
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Jibu franchises make clean drinking water affordable for Africa’s booming urban populations and provide economic opportunity to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
The United States Needs Its Own WASH Sector
Water, sanitation, and hygiene projects are not just for low-income countries overseas. They are also desperately needed at home. A Viewpoint from the Summer 2020 issue.
Flushing Taboo
The biggest obstacle to eradicating India’s sanitation problem is a social tradition based in its caste system. A Field Report from the Spring 2020 issue.
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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.
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Carbon for Water is engaged in a loopy funding scheme and offers a lousy public health solution.
Fixing India’s Sewage Problem
Sewage treatment systems are being built that are simpler and less expensive.
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In an era of big-bet philanthropy, a small foundation can still have an outsize impact. Here are seven techniques for getting more from your philanthropic dollar.