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Nonprofits

Networking a City

The Barr Fellows Network is changing the way work gets done in Boston’s large and entrenched social sector.

 

Impact Investing

Elizabeth Littlefield

Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.

By Johanna Mair | Summer 2012
 
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Nonprofit Management

Local Forces for Good

The authors of the influential book Forces for Good examine how their framework for creating high-impact nonprofits applies to local and smaller organizations.

 
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Social Entrepreneurship

In Search of the Hybrid Ideal

Researchers examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face.

 
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Philanthropy

A Big Deal for Conservation

A group of conservationists, former bankers, and management consultants have imported ideas from Wall Street to create a new way to protect large ecosystems.

 
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Measuring Social Impact

Get Feedback

It is essential to build direct consumer feedback into funding criteria for government and nonprofit programs serving low-income people.

 

Impact Investing

Big Society Capital Marks a Paradigm Shift

How the UK’s social investment bank will harness entrepreneurship and capital to solve societal problems.

 
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Education

Path to a New Africa

To change Africa’s future, we must change the mindset of young Africans in college today.

 
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Global Issues

What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

An inconvenient truth is hiding behind the current excitement about educating girls.

 
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Health

Safer Deliveries

The Manoshi Project in Bangladesh is proving that 90 percent of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.

By Tamara Straus | Summer 2012