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Nonprofits

No Substitute for Experience

When hiring executives, many nonprofits should seek marketing expertise.

By Rosaline Juan | Spring 2007
 

Social Innovations

Profiting From Failure

What nonprofits and donors can learn from the closing of a venture philanthropy firm.

By Paul Shoemaker | Spring 2007
 
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Government

Review: Capitalism 3.0

A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.

By David Vogel | Winter 2007
 
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Government

Government by Numbers

How CitiStat’s hard data and straight talk saved Baltimore.

By Noah Weiss | Winter 2007
 
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Business

Faith in Fair Trade

How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.

By Kathryn Wolford & Lisa Bonds | 1 | Winter 2007
 
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Nonprofits

Green Fire

A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.

By Laila Weir | Winter 2007
 
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Social Innovations

The People’s IPO

Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.

By Anne Stuhldreher | Winter 2007
 

Nonprofits

Guess Who’s Socially Irresponsible?

Nonprofits aren’t as nice to their employees as you might think.

By Mal Warwick | 8 | Winter 2007
 
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Nonprofits

Making It to McDonald’s

How Fair Trade coffee moved out of its niche and into the most mainstream market of all.

By Kirsten Olsen | Winter 2007
 
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Social Innovations

Rolls-Royce Radicals

Responsible Wealth, a Boston-based nonprofit, is convincing many affluent Americans to challenge the very rules that made them rich. Far from mere check writers or “limousine liberals,” these wealthy activists work against their self-interest to stamp out inequality at its source: unfair laws and policies. Their unique strategy of using privilege to contest privilege not only has attracted the rich and famous to their ranks, but also has bent the ears of senators and CEOs.

By Sandra Rothenberg & Maureen Scully | Winter 2007