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Beyond Profit: A Talk With Muhammad Yunus

The founder of microfinance discusses his fight to protect the Grameen Bank and the future of social business.

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A By-the-E-Book Education, for $5 a Month

Bridge International Academies in Kenya offers a fast-growing model for providing affordable education to poor children on a grand scale.

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The Benefits of Mixing Rich and Poor

Head Start succeeds when all children are enrolled.

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No Money, No Time

The poor are under a deadline that never lifts.

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When Poverty Makes You Sick, a Lawyer Can Be the Cure

Legal and medical professionals are joining forces to treat the social and environmental factors that make poor people sick.

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‘Invisible’ Credit? (Read This Now!)

Millions of financially responsible consumers don't have credit scores and can't get loans. Now there are ways to make them 'visible' to lenders.

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A Town Where a School Bus Is More Than a Bus

Bus drivers, when trained to be welcoming and understanding, can help children begin their school day more ready to learn.

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Upward Mobility for the World’s Destitute

Lack of skills and assets traps the ultrapoor in poverty for generations. Now organizations offer them a jump-start.

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Is Humanity Getting Better?

The world now is a thoroughly awful place, compared with what it should be. But not compared with what it was.

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Ideas Help No One on a Shelf. Take Them to the World.

Distributing, promoting and lending continuing support to good ideas for fixing the world's woes is as critical a task as thinking them up in the first place.

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