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Social Innovations

Helping the Poor Save More

To enrich the bottom of the pyramid, bankers to the poor should make saving money easier by using the latest findings from economics and psychology.

By Dean Karlan | Winter 2010
 
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Nonprofits

Recreating Fine Arts Institutions

The fine arts in America are on a perilous path. Attendance at opera, theater, jazz, symphony, and ballet performances has dropped precipitously in recent decades. Just as worrisome, the median age of people attending these events has increased dramatically. If the fine arts are to survive as a living, creative, and significant force in American life, arts institutions need to radically recreate themselves.

By Diane E. Ragsdale | Fall 2009
 
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Nonprofits

The Entrepreneurial Union

Freelance workers, whose numbers are growing, are left without health insurance, a retirement plan, or a work community. The Freelancers Union meets these needs.

By Amy Wilkinson | 7 | Fall 2009
 
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Government

A Nature State of Mind

True restoration—environmental and economic—will not come from congressional legislation, top-down stimulus money, or EPA rulings.

By Spencer B. Beebe & Ian Gill | 3 | Fall 2009
 
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Social Innovations

Microfinance for the Most Marginalized

Small loans are tipping the social scales for Roma people.

By Christopher J. Varady & Mila Gavrilova | Fall 2009
 
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Philanthropy

The Answer Is on the Ground

The solutions to seemingly impossible problems already exist in the communities facing those problems.

By Adrienne Day | Fall 2009
 
CONSERVATION
REFUGEES: The
Hundred-Year Conflict
Between Global
Conservation and
Native Peoples
Mark Dowie

Philanthropy

Good Guy vs. Good Guy

Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year-Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie

Reviewed By Bill Adams | Fall 2009
 
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Global Issues

Research: Why They Stayed

New research reveals the economic hardships that Katrina's "stayers" were battling and the abundance of negative opinions about them.

By Alana Conner | Fall 2009
 
SELF-RENEWAL:
The Individual and
the Innovative
Society
John W. Gardner

Social Innovations

Staying Vibrant and Curious

Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John Gardner

Reviewed By Jacqueline Novogratz | 6 | Fall 2009
 
BORN TO BE GOOD:
The Science of a
Meaningful Life
Dacher Keltner

Philanthropy

Rethinking Human Nature

Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner

Reviewed By Maria Surricchio | 2 | Fall 2009