This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. AloWeather provides forecasts and advice to farmers in Vietnam through an SMS and voice messaging system. Making Treasure from Trash supports women in Ghana to create biogas and biofertilizer businesses. A-Card…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, 650 million children around the globe are at risk of being left behind as they fail to learn basic skills. Inequitable access to education is part of the problem,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bryce Butler rattles off statistics about poverty and community finance like a Louisville sports fan going on about the Cardinals. Instead of bootlegs and draws, however, Butler’s playbook includes Kiva…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this month, Congress passed bipartisan legislation that has significant implications for the Pay for Success (PFS) movement. As part of the budget agreement, Congress has allocated nearly $100 million to provide competitively…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the release of its Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America, the Trump administration announced its intent to rely on state, local, and private investment to provide the lion’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In October, Gartner released a report with predictions about the top tech trends for business in 2018. We covered the first three trends according to Gartner in part one of this series. Below,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard to overstate the impact mobile technology has on global development efforts. The spread of mobile cellular and data networks, coupled with the falling cost of mobile phones and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At its core, blockchain technology is a way of creating trust in a community that doesn’t rely on a central actor. there is no one person or organization in charge of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Charitably Speaking’s Ann Rosenfield discusses fundraising for startup and young nonprofits, monthly giving, and old school and new school fundraising among other things. Ann has been in the sector for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Americans buy fresh, perishable food, we usually expect to know where much of it comes from. That’s due to an oft-contested law known as Country of Origin Labeling (COOL).…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Among a slew of spending and tax credits tucked into the budget bill signed by U.S. President Trump, one of them, known as 45Q, expands tax incentives for carbon capture, including from the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As an investor in data-driven companies, I’ve been thinking a lot about my grandfather—a baker, a small business owner, and, I now realize, a pioneering data scientist. Without much more…