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Measuring Social Impact

Shared Outcomes

How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.

 
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Economic Development

One Acre at a Time

One Acre Fund feeds the world’s poor by helping them feed themselves.

By Corey Binns | Summer 2011
 
AMERICAN GRACE:
How Religion Divides
and Unites Us
Robert D. Putnam & David
E. Campbell

Civil Society

One Nation Under Gods

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam & David E. Campbell

Reviewed By Rhys H. Williams | Spring 2011
 
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Human Rights

Long Suffering Falls Short

Guilt might move people not to relieve suffering, but to exacerbate it by rationalizing that the victims somehow deserve their plight.

By Alana Conner | Spring 2010
 
GOD’S ECONOMY:
Faith-Based
Initiatives and the
Caring State
Lew Daly

Civil Society

Faith Tempered by Reality

GOD’S ECONOMY: Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State by Lew Daly

Reviewed By Robert Wineburg | Summer 2010
 
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Human Rights

Airborne Peace

In Rwanda, Radio La Benevolencija uses soap operas to heal ethnic tensions. Listeners who tune into a weekly show about feuding ethnic groups are more likely than non-listeners to stand up to authority and to voice their own opinions.

By Meredith May | Spring 2010
 
HALF THE SKY:
Turning Oppression
into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide
Sheryl WuDunn &
Nicholas D. Kristof

Human Rights

Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof

Reviewed By Kavita Nandini Ramdas | 3 | Winter 2010
 
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Nonprofit Management

Outrun the Recession

The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.

By Alan Tuck, Don Howard & William Foster | 6 | Winter 2010
 
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Social Innovations

Public-Private Alliances Transform Aid

The dual goals of scalability and sustainability have eluded many development projects. In recent years, however, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has reached out to corporations, nonprofits, and even private citizens to build alliances that are making large-scale, long-term change. In this article, the former head of USAID describes the public-private partnership model that his agency forged, the successes that the model has won, and the struggles that it continues to face.

By Andrew S. Natsios | Fall 2009
 
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Global Issues

Research: It’s Not About the Work Ethic

Protestants' work ethic is a product of the denomination's emphasis on education.

By Alana Conner | 1 | Fall 2009