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Economic Development

It Takes a General Contractor

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

By Suzie Boss | 1 | Fall 2011
 
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Nonprofit Management

Improving Teamwork

Collectivist, group-oriented teams do better work.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Health

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.

By John Goldstein & Margaret Laws | 1 | Fall 2011
 

Education

Student Retention App

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

By Suzie Boss | Fall 2011
 
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Corporate Philanthropy

Chris West

Chris West leverages the assets of the Shell Foundation and its corporate parent to improve the lives of low-income people in the developing world.

By Johanna Mair | 1 | Fall 2011
 

Health

Undisclosed Pharma Contributions

Most health advocacy organizations do not report industry funding.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Health

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.

By Arnold Milstein | Fall 2011
 
KaBOOM! How One
Man Built a Movement
to Save Play
Darell Hammond

Nonprofit Management

Scaling Play

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

Reviewed By Paul Connolly | Fall 2011
 
POOR ECONOMICS:
A Radical Rethinking
of the Way to Fight
Global Poverty
Abhijit Banerjee &
Esther Duflo

Economic Development

Radically Small Thinking

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

Reviewed By Timothy Ogden | Fall 2011
 
THE END OF
FUNDRAISING:
Raise More Money by
Selling Your Impact
Jason Saul

Fundraising

Supplicants No More

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

Reviewed By David Simpson | Fall 2011