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Author |
Category |
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| Fall 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Education • Poverty |
College-Bound
Project GRAD builds community support for educational reform in the inner city.
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| Fall 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations |
Simply Successful
A Boston nonprofit's simple mission attracts sustained support and helps working-poor families.
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| Winter 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Education • Poverty |
Trash to Treasure [Free!]
Converting corporate waste into classroom tools.
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| Winter 2005 |
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Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Human Rights |
15 Minutes with Margaret Henningsen
How an African-American banker is rebuilding her community.
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| Winter 2005 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Cause Marketing • Philanthropy • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Poverty • Health |
Tackling Vision Care Disparities [Free!]
How one nonprofit uses an NFL team’s celebrity to improve poor children’s eyesight - and life chances.
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| Summer 2006 |
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Global Issues • Civil Society |
Bowling Alone?
Civil society may not be in such bad shape.
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| Fall 2006 |
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Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises |
From Marble to Formica
How the Union Bank of California attracts lower-income people to traditional banking.
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| Winter 2007 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Global Issues • Poverty |
The People’s IPO [Free!]
Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.
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| Spring 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Education • Arts |
15 Minutes with Kevin Johnson [Free!]
SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills sat down with former NBA superstar Kevin Johnson to discuss how he's revitalizing his old inner-city neighborhood.
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| Fall 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Review: The Trap [Free!]
Where have all the public servants gone?
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| Fall 2007 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business • Social Enterprises |
Private Equity, Public Good
Many businesses serving lower income communities languish because they can't raise enough money to fund their growth. To meet their needs, a new breed of private equity investment—development investment capital—has emerged. Although this style of investing is still in its infancy, it's already showing promise.
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| Fall 2007 |
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Government • Government Programs • Global Issues • Education |
Boots on the School Ground [Free!]
An innovative federal project turns retiring military personnel into teachers.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty |
Baked Goods
Dancing Deer Bakery helps most when it keeps its eye on the bottom line.
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| Summer 2008 |
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Government • Social Policy • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty |
15 Minutes with Martin Eakes [Free!]
Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with Self-Help’s founder and CEO, Martin Eakes, about the subprime loan crisis and its impact on the poor.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Business • Social Enterprises |
Soup Kitchen Confidential
To share its expertise without jeopardizing its mission, FareStart spun out a new organization.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Global Issues • Poverty • Health • Civil Society |
Research: Bad ’Hoods, Naughty Kids
The violence, noise, and crowding of poor neighborhoods stress kids and parents, bringing out their bad sides and breeding psychopathology.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Government • Social Policy • Government Programs • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Research: Universal Care Hurt Quebec’s Kids
Universal child care may not be the best option.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Government Programs • Global Issues • Education • Civil Society |
Full Scale Ahead [Free!]
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?
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| Summer 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Charter Schools • Government • Government Programs • Global Issues • Poverty • Civil Society |
Reward Progress, Reduce Poverty
We must break the stereotype that low-income communities are unable to help themselves.
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| Spring 2010 |
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Social Innovations • Charter Schools • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Education • Global Issues • Education • First Person |
Which Fix?
Some school reformers advocate starting over, while others want to keep the same students and site. Both approaches are useful.
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