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Nonprofit Management

Engineering Higher Efficiency

Toyota brings its vaunted process improvement method to nonprofits.

 

Intermediaries

Giving Blind

Watch dog organizations don't reach most donors.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Winter 2012
 

Health

Global Diseases, Local Needs

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

By Jessica Ruvinsky | 3 | Winter 2012
 

Nonprofit Management

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.

By Donald Haider & Franz Wohlgezogen | 1 | Winter 2012
 

Civil Society

Public Services 2.0

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

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Winter 2012
 
CLASS WARFARE:
Inside the Fight to
Fix America’s Schools
Steven Brill

Education

Hall of Mirrors

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

Reviewed By Jonathan Schorr | Winter 2012
 

Government

Governing Innovation

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

By Corey Binns | 1 | Winter 2012
 

Nonprofit Management

Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis

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

By Daniel Stid & Willa Seldon | 2 | Winter 2012
 

Education

Redefining Education in the Developing World

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

By Mark J. Epstein & Kristi Yuthas | 12 | Winter 2012
 

Environment

The Race Against CO2

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

By Tamara Straus | Winter 2012