Happy Tax Day! Have you ever wondered why don’t we tax Hummers instead of salaries? Or why don’t we list environmental damage as a liability on balance sheets? These are the kinds of questions with which Donna Morton, cofounder of British Columbia’s Centre ...
PROBLEM: When Abby Falik started Global Citizen Year (GCY) in 2008, the last challenge she expected to encounter was not attracting enough applicants for the organization’s program. GCY offers intense international apprenticeships to students who take a “bridge year” between high school and ...
PROBLEM: Overeager and undiscerning donors nearly hamstrung the D.C.-based recycling collective, Bikes for the World (BfW), in its infancy. International development professional Keith Oberg, had created BfW to solve two problems: The developing world lacked affordable, eco-friendly transportation, and cheap production methods had ...
Bill Abram’s jokes that when he was hired as president of Trickle Up the staff "thought the board had lost its mind.” He'd spent 30 years in the media industry, where the goal is to maximize profits not to pursue social impact. Nonetheless, ...