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Articles Tagged With 'women'

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2003
Kari Lyderson
Nonprofits • Global Issues • Poverty • Civil Society • Global Issues • Civil Society • Research Debunking Empowerment Contrary to common belief, giving people living in public housing a sense of 'empowerment' has little to do with whether they are then involved in activities to improve their community.
Summer 2003
Jan Chong
Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Human Rights Fostering Diversity Employee network groups keep minority managers on the job.
Summer 2003
Andrew Nelson
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Philanthropy • Altruism Love, Honor, and Don’t Bargain When couples haggle over charity, total giving drops.
Fall 2004
Jan Chong
Social Innovations • Socially Responsible Investing • Business • Socially Responsible Business Determining Diversity Do socially responsible funds ask the right questions?
Winter 2004
Peter Manzo
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership The Real Salary Scandal [Free!] It’s isn’t that some nonprofit CEOs make big bucks. It’s that most nonprofit employees are paid too little.
Summer 2005
Alana Conner Snibbe
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Global Issues • Civil Society What Women Don’t Want How male managers’ patronizing behavior undercuts female subordinates’ performance.
Summer 2005
Alessandra Bianchi
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership • Board Governance • Nonprofit Organizations • Global Issues • Education Educators With Borders Sometimes nonprofit workers have to learn
to “just say no”.
Winter 2005
Anne Stuhldreher
Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Human Rights 15 Minutes with Margaret Henningsen How an African-American banker is rebuilding her community.
Fall 2006
John Laurenson
Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Government Programs • Global Issues • Health • Civil Society • Religion & Culture The Oldest Profession How a German nonprofit is repurposing sex workers’ skills.
Fall 2006
Kevin Bolduc
Philanthropy • Foundations • Nonprofits • Social Return on Investment • Global Issues • Human Rights Review: Effective Philanthropy Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality
Winter 2007
Alana Conner Snibbe
Business • Socially Responsible Business • Global Issues • Human Rights Diversity Training Doesn’t Work How can companies hire and promote more women and minorities?
Summer 2007
Alana Conner
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society Putting Women in Their Place Which woman is more likely to attract unpleasant sexual attention: the office sweetheart or the ambitious upstart? A new study by social psychologist Jennifer Berdahl points to the upstart. From her findings, Berdahl concludes that “men aren’t harassing women to get into their pants, but to put them down....”
Spring 2008
Alana Conner
Government • Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society Red and Blue Revisited The more race- and sex-segregated the county, the more Republican it votes.
Spring 2008
Abby Fung
Philanthropy • Foundations • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty Baked Goods Dancing Deer Bakery helps most when it keeps its eye on the bottom line.

Spring 2008
Laura Gehl
Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Health The Mother Lode MomsRising is tapping a vast resource to improve the lives of American families.
Summer 2008
Leslie Berger
Nonprofits • Social Entrepreneurship • Business • Social Enterprises • Global Issues • Poverty • Arts She’s Crafty [Free!] World of Good connects female artisans in poor countries with retailers (including Whole Foods Market, pictured) in the West.
Fall 2008
Alana Conner
Government • Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society Research: A Soldier’s Life for Her The military's better than civilian life, say minorities and women such as Marine Corps Capt. Elizabeth Okoreeh-Baah, the first woman to pilot the V-22 Osprey.
Fall 2008
Jennifer Roberts
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.
Winter 2009
Kyle Peterson & Marc Pfitzer
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Government • Social Policy • Government Programs • Business • Socially Responsible Business Lobbying for Good [Free!] In their efforts to be socially responsible, most companies fail to wield their most powerful tool: lobbying. Yet corporations such as Mary Kay, Royal Dutch Shell, and General Motors are increasingly leveraging their deep pockets, government contacts, and persuasive powers for the cause of good. Not all kinds of socially responsible lobbying are created equal, however. The authors discuss which forms are best for companies and society.
Winter 2009
Alana Conner
Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society Research: Starting Up Women Successful entrepreneurs show characteristics of both men and women.
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