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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
 

Nonprofit Management

How Leaders Encourage Innovation

Transformational leaders capitalize on the creativity that employees have.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Foundations

When the Big Bet Fails

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

By Suzie Boss | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Government 2.0

Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.

By Carleen Hawn | Fall 2011
 

Health

Perspectives from the Field

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

By Lisa Suennen, William Rosenzweig, & Chaim Indig | 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
 
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Social Entrepreneurship

Cadaver Commerce

The moral legitimacy of a new market can come as much from how you sell something as from exactly what you’re selling.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Water

Spring Water Protection Improves Health

Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011