Product placement in a comic strip puts the focus on a well-promoted online charity venture. But a look at the financial statements suggests that there may be bottlenecks ahead as the organization tries to scale up.
Sponsor of an annual conference for Christian philanthropists shares his thoughts, with a candid assessment of fundamental shifts in the nature of Christian giving.
Harvard provides an example of the claims being made about the business opportunity of lending to the poor, thirty years after the founding of the Grameen Bank.
They may not be the stories that gained the most attention, but in my opinion are the most important stories about the charity industry in this last year.
Muhammad Yunis won the Nobel peace prize for transforming the business of loan
sharks into microcredit for poor women. A new generation of (male)
market-oriented investors could be reversing the process.
