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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

How do we make sure that the blossoming impact investment movement — especially as it starts to supplant traditional aid — actually leads to improvements in outcomes for the people and communities it is supposed to benefit? Lessons from Microfinance. First, does microfinance help people, and if so, how much?

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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

October 2007. August 2007. Who Do You Serve? Speedboat or Sailboat Leadership: Which Do You Practice? Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Do You Practice Artificial or Authentic Accountability? Do You Have a “Leadership Tell”? Do You Show Your Unsung Heroes Love?

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

percent lower than its value in 2007. More broadly, it seems to me that learning to see donors themselves, and not only their checkbooks, as critical assets is part of what turns a nonprofit into a social enterprise. A forecast issued late in the year by The Chronicle on Philanthropy projected their collective growth at just 1 percent.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

In 2007 such young enterprises created almost two-thirds of the nation’s 12 million new jobs. The policy debate should really move beyond whether to “do entrepreneurship” to how to seed the businesses that will create the jobs. were fueled by poverty, unemployment, and lack of economic opportunity.”