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.
View ArticleA 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.
View ArticleThe Benefits of Mixing Rich and Poor
Head Start succeeds when all children are enrolled.
View ArticleWhen 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.
View Article‘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.
View ArticleA 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.
View ArticleUpward 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.
View ArticleIs Humanity Getting Better?
The world now is a thoroughly awful place, compared with what it should be. But not compared with what it was.
View ArticleIdeas 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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