Roberta Michnick Golinkoff believes that American children don’t get enough time to play and that it’s negatively impacting their development. With joint appointments to the Departments of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Delaware, Dr. Golinkoff’s work has centered on the questions ...
One of the key questions in the social sector is: What kind of financing is needed to help build great organizations, i.e. organizations that genuinely succeed in solving problems and improve as they expand? George Overholser, the founder and managing director of Nonprofit ...
In our Big Ideas series, we check in regularly with top thinkers in the field of social innovation. We want to know what they're working on, what questions they're wrestling with, what opportunities and challenges they see up ahead for the sector. Today we ...
Urban arts programs often build confidence and agency among youth who are disheartened by or disconnected from -- public schools. Starting today, and over the newt few weeks, we'll be featuring a series on Art and Urban Youth, featuring interviews with leaders in ...
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: That’s right, microlending leader Kiva (@Kiva) is now financing student loans in the developing world. Similar ...
Before creating World Bicycle Relief, F.K. Day ran SRAM, one of the world’s top manufacturers of bicycle parts. In 2005, struck by the images of people struggling to cope after the Tsunami, Day flew to Sri Lanka. He thought his bicycle and business ...
It's becoming increasingly popular to take a gap year either before college or between college years. Many youths are choosing to use that time to make a positive impact in the world. Here, Doni Bloomfield (right), an incoming freshman at the University of ...
Harry Rhodes helps homeless and low-income individuals grow roots—both figuratively and literally. As the executive director of Growing Home, he works with people who are seeking to leave behind lives of homelessness, joblessness, and addiction. Growing Home provides training in the cultivation and ...
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder of the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital firm, which makes loans and equity investments in companies that deliver health care, water, housing, and energy to underserved markets in developing countries. The author of The Blue Sweater: Bridging ...
Search for the hashtag #socent and you’ll find wide-ranging interest in social entrepreneurship on Twitter. Here’s a roundup of a few thought-provoking tweets from the last week: According to the BBC (@bbcnews), the U.K. government has released the first of what it’s calling ...