International Aid Charities Will Soon Be Eligible for Federal Innovation Funds
Both nonprofit and for-profit entities will be eligible to compete for funds.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Seeks to Move Beyond Making Loans to Entrepreneurs
The fast-growing charity Kiva hopes to use its technology and pool of supporters to solve problems that go well beyond its initial efforts to help entrepreneurs in the developing world.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
$120-Billion Could Go to Social Investments, Report Says
Investments that would seek social as well as financial gains would be in addition to philanthropic giving.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Social Capital Markets Conference Opens in San Francisco
Speakers from the Gates foundation, Kiva, and elsewhere will discuss how businesslike approaches can improve education, international development, and food systems.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Meeting on Mobile Devices and Health
The mHealth Summit has landed a big keynote speaker: Bill Gates. The meeting, which will take place from November 8-10 in Washington, focuses on how cellphones and other mobile technology can be used to improve health care, particularly in developing countries. Other speakers will include Ted…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Directory of Evaluation Tools
The Foundation Center and the consulting firm McKinsey & Company have created an online directory of more than 150 tools and methodologies designed to help charities measure whether their work is making a difference. “The thought was to eliminate the need for starting from scratch and allow people…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Microfinance Site Adds Student Loans
Kiva.org expands services to allow donors to support student loans for college students in developing nations. (Tech)
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Investment Standards Next on B Lab’s Agenda
A nonprofit that evaluates businesses on their societal impact plans to do the same for social-purpose investment vehicles.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Group Devises Credentials for Socially Conscious Businesses
B Lab, a nonprofit group near Philadelphia, has created a credential to help businesses that want to do good stand out from other corporations.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Melissa L. Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, Tides Network
A supporter of minority and youth entrepreneurship takes over leadership of the Tides Network, a San Francisco social-change group.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor