This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hurricanes and floods on the Gulf Coast. Devastation in Puerto Rico. Raging fires in Northern California. Earthquakes in Mexico. The list of natural disasters seems to be growing at an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Turner Impact Capital, one of the nation’s largest social impact investment firms, has launched a dedicated property management company, TI Communities, to provide a full range of professional services for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In my country, Sierra Leone, we have only just begun to fully recover from the devastation of Ebola. Yet now the floods and resulting mudslides witnessed in Freetown in August…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the largest philanthropic pledge to date from the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Rockport, Texas, on August 25, 2017, we knew there would be massive winds and torrential rains. But none of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For World Poverty Day, nonprofit venture capital fund Acumen debuts a series of portraits of people living on less than $5 a day–and show how the projects it’s funded are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Now that immediate recovery needs are being met, our focus is expanding to long-term housing needs of the many that have lost their homes or have been displaced pending extensive…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Detroit is contending to become Amazon’s second home. The e-commerce giant — based out of Seattle — is looking to open up an HQ2 as a second base of operations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Four massive storms and two devastating earthquakes struck North America and the Caribbean in a span of four short weeks. Four short weeks resulting in lives lost, millions without water…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The press repeatedly emphasizes that over 80% of the people in Puerto Rico do not have electricity. However approximately 40% of people still do not have clean water to drink…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Microfinance is a $92 billion industry, with more than 100 million borrowers in more than 75 countries around the world. But as regular readers of NextBillion know, it is no…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The list of recent disasters just keeps growing—from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Jose to this week’s deadly Santa Rosa wildfires—with no respite in sight. Along with the natural destruction, too…