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| Summer 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Poverty • Health • Human Rights |
15 Minutes with Paul Farmer [Free!]
Founder, Partners in Health.
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| Summer 2005 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Health |
Review: Strong Medicine
The strategic use of vaccines may be the key to spreading infectious diseases in the developing world.
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| Fall 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Health |
Sharing Power
How Merck and the WHO have sustained a fragile balance of power in their battle against river blindness.
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| Winter 2007 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Health |
15 Minutes with Victoria Hale [Free!]
MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.
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| Fall 2007 |
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Social Innovations • Microfinance • Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Health |
Micro-franchise Against Malaria [Free!]
How for-profit clinics are healing and enriching the rural poor in Kenya.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Health |
Marching to a Different Mission
When the Salk polio vaccine proved to be effective in 1955, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had to choose whether to close up shop or to pursue a new agenda. The foundation first broadened its mission, but lost donations, volunteers, and public support. After honing its mission to birth defects, however, it recovered. Here's how the organization that eventually became the March of Dimes planned – and survived – its transitions.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Social Innovations • Microfinance • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Health |
What’s Next: LivingGoods Calling
LivingGoods sends its version of Avon ladies—white-uniformed "health promoters"—knocking on doors in hundreds of Ugandan communities.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Global Issues • Health • Civil Society |
What’s Next: Paying for Safe Sex
Paying people to practice safe sex.
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| Spring 2009 |
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Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Health |
What’s Next: Texting It In
A free, open-source software package lets health care workers in developing countries better fight disease.
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| Summer 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Mobile Technology • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Health |
What’s Next: Mobilizing Against Fake Drugs
Texting emerges as a source of confirmation for drug legitimacy.
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| Fall 2009 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Global Issues • Health • Civil Society |
The Answer Is on the Ground
The solutions to seemingly impossible problems already exist in the communities facing those problems.
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