According to recent studies, close to 70% of the approximately 1000 students who graduate each year from IT programs in the Gaza Strip struggle with unemployment. It’s an especially concerning statistic when one takes into account the growth of this sector and its...
As SEE Change readers well know, one of the most challenging and critical roles of a social enterprise is to scale sustainable solutions. It’s applying our entrepreneurialism consistently, over time, to both the social mission of our enterprises and the business...
Originally published as part of Washington Monthly’s Successes in Philanthropy blog series In today’s political climate, it’s easy to assume that our civic systems are broken, and accomplishments—when they are not denigrated or outright dismissed by the “other...
This op-ed was originally published in The Hill Times, April 13, 2015 The recent media coverage of the proposed layoffs of dozens of developmentally disabled people in Ottawa due to the end of a 30-year contract for paper disposal with the federal government has...
We’re all aware of income inequality and the need for initiatives to address common societal issues. Yet we don’t often hear about whether programs meant to help people really solve the problems at hand, because few steps are taken to actually assess the outcomes,...