Who made the shirt you're wearing? Were the cloth cutters or seamstresses treated fairly? Did the factory comply with reasonable environmental standards? If you have no clue, then check out the work of Alice Tepper Marlin. She believes we all have a right ...
Fresh out of business school, Mary Ellen Iskenderian went to work on Wall Street, where she learned the art of banking and made good money. But something was missing. "I thought, 'This is not what I’m here for,'" she says. She made a ...
When the U.S. economy took a nose dive, and banks cut back on lending, many small American businesses turned to a credit source typically associated with the developing world: microfinance. Microlender ACCION USA, which has lent close to $120 million since 1991, was ...
In 1983, Vivian Stromberg traveled with a women’s delegation to Nicaragua in the midst of a brutal civil war. There, she witnessed day care centers, schools and clinics that had been bombed by the U.S.-backed Contra armies. Stromberg and her American colleagues wanted ...
We all know that that time of the month is a pain, but who knew that it causes millions of women to lose up to 45 days of work and school every year? And for something as basic as a lack of sanitary ...
Remember how dull (and awkward!) your high school sex ed and life skills classes were? Maura Minsky, co-Founder and Executive Director of Scenarios USA, has a different approach: let young people do the teaching - through film. Scenarios USA solicits screenplays from youth, ...
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, ...