How Prioritizing Profit Can Maximize Social Impact

How Prioritizing Profit Can Maximize Social Impact

If your social enterprise can’t survive without grants, don’t kid yourself, you’re running a charity. This is the harsh truth the social enterprise sector needs to face if it wants to deliver on its original promise. Social enterprises have been hailed as champions of...
Philanthropy Must Learn from Remittances

Philanthropy Must Learn from Remittances

In the landscape of global development finance, remittances — financial transfers sent by migrants to their families and communities in their home countries — continue to grow stronger under the radar of international headlines, which often feature aid programs and...
How Immigrants and Villagers Create Their Own Financial Inclusion

How Immigrants and Villagers Create Their Own Financial Inclusion

Three facts: 419 million adults in developing countries accumulate useful amounts of capital in savings circles that they organize and run themselves. These groups work based on commonly understood principles of disciplined savings, mutual accountability, and support...
A Special Alchemy of Color and Texture from Design Ateliers

A Special Alchemy of Color and Texture from Design Ateliers

As part of a series of “fireside chats” sponsored by R.I.S.E. Artisan Fund, Hema Shroff Patel and Maddalena Forcella discussed their approach to design, heritage crafts, and their design studios. Both designers work collaboratively with highly skilled spinners, dyers,...
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