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Impact Investing: What Exactly Is New?

A veteran of the microfinance industry looks at impact investing through the lenses of history, language, and psychology.

Public Good Politics

Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz

A Healthier City

San Francisco’s five-year-old universal health care program sees positive results.

Social Impact Markets

Why a market for social innovations is needed now more than ever.

Making Businesses More Responsible

Corporate sustainability reporting is increasingly mandated by government and the public.

Connecting Heart to Head

Leaders of Alcoa and PUMA, two forward-looking multibillion-dollar global companies, describe a framework for sustainable growth.

Open Source for Humanitarian Action

Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones.

Diversity Opportunities

New research finds that some companies are increasingly pro-diversity and others lag well behind.

The Rise of Social Capital Market Intermediaries

Donors and grantmakers are allocating money more efficiently, thanks to the emergence of information and funding intermediaries.

The Evolution of Membership

Membership in organizations is growing, but not what it used to be.

A Win-Win for Haiti

Partners in Health and Abbott Laboratories are building a new plant in Corporant, Haiti to produce a therapeutic food called Nourimanba.

Hall of Mirrors

Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools by Steven Brill

Giving Blind

Watch dog organizations don't reach most donors.

Engineering Higher Efficiency

Toyota brings its vaunted process improvement method to nonprofits.

Global Diseases, Local Needs

The diseases that get funded tend to be the ones for which funders can take credit.

Public Services 2.0

Technology can empower citizens to co-create some government services.

Journey into Brazil’s Social Sector

The founder of the first social fund in Brazil tells his story.

Specialists’ Niche

A Danish company finds jobs for people with autism.

Governing Innovation

New York’s Center for Economic Opportunity tests new antipoverty programs from the mayor’s office.

Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis

How human services nonprofits can stay afloat and advance their missions during a time of government cutbacks.

Redefining Education in the Developing World

A new approach that builds relevant marketplace, entrepreneurship, and health care skills is needed.

The Race Against CO2

The Chinese government's new five-year plan calls for increasing the energy efficiency of new buildings.

Change Comes at a Cost

In 2008, a group of Chicago’s social service agencies formed the Back Office Cooperative, which has produced impressive financial savings. Yet greater efficiency has had a cultural cost.

On-Ramp for Entrepreneurs

Venture for America launches two-year apprenticeships for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Giving 2.0: Getting Together to Give

Giving circles are powerful ways to transform the world while also transforming participants’ giving.

Roundtable on Impact Investing

A group of social innovation leaders from around the world discuss impact investing and how to make it more effective.

Shifting the Market

Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine & Jed Emerson

Go-Getters and Givers

Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Finding Your Funding Model

Four guidelines provide a road map for leaders to identify and develop the right funding model for their organization.
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Circles of Change

Lending circles, self-help groups, and study circles are among the oldest and most effective tools for creating personal and social change.

Opportunities in Mobile Health

The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.
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Trawling for Trash

An EU Fisheries Commission Project pays fisherman to remove plastic debris from the Mediterranean Sea.
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Too Good to Fail

In August 2010 the US government closed ShoreBank, one of the country’s leading social enterprises. Why did ShoreBank fail?
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Revitalizing Struggling American Cities

Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
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Effective Partnerships

How local governments and nonprofits can work together for large-scale community change.
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Microfinance Needs Regulation

The microcredit industry needs to be regulated through policies that address high interest rates and abusive loan recovery practices.
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Water Thinking

The Peer Water Exchange manages diverse solutions and resources to fight the global water crisis.
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It Takes a General Contractor

Nuru International identifies proven poverty-reduction programs and aims to take them to scale.
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Improving Teamwork

Collectivist, group-oriented teams do better work.
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Foundations as Investors

Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.
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Investing for the Safety Net

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.
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Student Retention App

A new Facebook app helps incoming freshmen connect—but within the closed community of their college.

The Missing Link in School Reform

American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
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Undisclosed Pharma Contributions

Most health advocacy organizations do not report industry funding.

Reinventing Health Care Services

A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.
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Scaling Play

KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond

Radically Small Thinking

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo

Supplicants No More

The End of Fundraising: Raise More Money by Selling Your Impact by Jason Saul

How Leaders Encourage Innovation

Transformational leaders capitalize on the creativity that employees have.

When the Big Bet Fails

The Northwest Area Foundation learns—and shares—hard lessons from a 10-year initiative.
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