Honoring the legacies of its patron saint and its founder in serving the poor and addressing the root causes of poverty, the ...

The early pioneers, including Root Capital, Omidyar Network, and Acumen Fund, set out to make philanthropic capital more productive in serving the poor. We had seen that neither markets nor top-down ...

While teaching at Bangladesh’s University of Chittagong in 1976, Muhammad Yunus interviewed a stool maker named Sufia Begum.1 Because Sufia did not have the 22 cents she needed to buy bamboo, she ...

Through a mix of cases, books and guest speakers the course will attempt to identify the principal opportunities, challenges, and limitations of businesses and nonprofits in serving the poor. The ...

Ghana Make a Difference, formed with a focus on helping children ... "It truly is the poorest of the poor," Jensen said. The need is extensive, beyond what Jensen and his team can provide.

A new breed of drug middlemen are pushing an unusual cost-saving strategy that lets their employer clients tap a federal program meant for hospitals that serve the poor. The government program ...

Without them, some would argue, helping the poor would be even more of a challenge. Many religious buildings do not just help believers in their relationship with God but also in their ...

Under the so-called “10% definition”, a household was considered fuel poor if it needed to spend more than 10% of its income on fuel to maintain an adequate level of warmth, defined as 21 degrees in ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court had ruled that the group’s activities in serving the state’s poor were not religious enough to qualify for a tax exemption. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...