What Didn’t Work: Tongue-Tied at the Top
While boards sat in silence, executives milked American University and the Smithsonian.
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What’s Next: Social Entrepreneurs Take the Leads
Skoll and Sundance hope documentary films prove powerful in making social change.
What’s Next: Turn on the TV, Class
Poor children can watch rich children's better school classes on TV.
Full Scale Ahead
To grow to full scale, serving 50,000 students a year, YouthBuild's federal funding must increase from $60 million to $125 million annually. Local programs will also need to raise $250 million annually from state and local education and criminal justice funds, and from private donors. How does YouthBuild plan to achieve this breakthrough and help five times as many people?
Clicking for Smart CSR
National Instrument's partnerships not only energize science education, but also boost the company's brand and employee morale.
Left: An engineer readies her robot at the 2008 FIRST Lego League World Festival, an annual competition that brings together teams of students to show off their engineering chops. Powering her robot was sophisticated software developed by National Instruments. Her team, the Power Peeps of Swartz Creek, Mich., placed third.
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In the Black with BRAC
Serving more than 110 million people per year, BRAC is the largest nonprofit in the world. Yet it doesn't receive the most charitable donations. Instead, BRAC's social enterprises generate 80 percent of the organization's annual budget. These revenues have allowed the organization to develop, test, and replicate some of the world's most innovative antipoverty programs.
What’s Next: GreenNote Friends
GreenNote helps students with no credit history obtain college loans.
They’ve Got Your Back
The Posse Foundation sends diverse students to college together so that they can lean on each other and lead their schools.
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