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Dec 30, 2006
Education in Africa
Countries such as Mali are registering close to a thousand children in schools that employ only three teachers and have no or few textbooks.
Dec 18, 2006
Bush Ramps Up Anti-Malaria Initiative
The $1.2 billion President’s Malaria Initiative is aimed at eradicating malaria in regions prone to the disease through a multipronged effort of treatment and prevention.
Dec 12, 2006
Microlending Highlights Rift Between Nonprofits and Social Businesses
For-profit ventures with a social mission have the benefit of an automatic yardstick to measure whether their approach is working: profitability. Except that profitability is not the only way to measure whether something works, and as the trend in philanthropreneurship gains momentum it might usurp nonprofit funding.