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How Infrastructure Spending Can Help the Most Vulnerable Americans
Three areas where philanthropic funders can partner with government on infrastructure investments to advance equity in the United States.
Economic Development
How to Deliver Cash Transfer Programs More Effectively to Hard-to-Reach Populations
Cash transfer programs often struggle to reach those most in need. An investigation of four programs across Brazil, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Palestine revealed five features that lead to success.
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Inside Oklahoma’s Innovation Rush
What two regions have learned about implementing an historic federal grant.
When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption
Development philanthropists should focus on building the productive capacity of entire countries to achieve large-scale economic transformation, rather than enabling a few individuals to increase their consumption.
Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?
Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior.
Impact Investing for the Missing Middle in Agri-Finance
How an innovative stakeholder-shareholder investment model is helping smallholder farmers grow and thrive.
Linking Youth Into Society
Life Project 4 Youth Alliance promotes the personal development and professional advancement of impoverished youth.
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The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Innovative Solutions for the Housing Crisis
Six pathways to making housing more affordable and available from the Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability.
The Profit in Nonprofit
Why Kiva chose to be a 501(c)(3), what this tax status buys the organization, and how being a nonprofit poses challenges.
Beyond the Poverty Line
A new approach to measuring poverty is needed, one that accounts for multiple factors such as housing, and regional economic differences.
Beyond ‘X Number Served’
To cure the social sector’s metric monomania, we must get comfortable with complexity.