State and local governments deliver and fund many of the nation's most important social services -- educating our children, training our unemployed wo...
Buying Apple stock would be a better financial investment, but putting money towards ending street homelessness is undoubtedly a better social investment. I guess it's time to call my stock broker.
Our nation's costly prison complex incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. Re-aligning the incentives of our corrections departments is the only way toward achieving a system of justice that is worthy of that name.
Mayors around the nation are working to meet increased demands with fewer and fewer resources, making the need for public-sector innovation more important than ever.
NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Kim Hartke, who served 14 months in jail for stealing a car to pay for her addiction, turned her life around in part bec...
As social entrepreneurs we are in a unique position to explore creative new approaches -- going beyond what governments and businesses can do on their own.
We need a society in which our government and our people embrace responsibility for the common good and in which altruism and philanthropy are more a motivation in supporting charitable activity than in the profit-seeking greed of capital markets.
2011 could be an inflection point in the Capitol. New leadership in Congress. New staff at the White House. Perhaps even a new era of bipartisanship forged out of the tragedy in Arizona.