Growing Home: Creating Institutional Change in China

Publication Date: May 11, 2018

In 2008, Du and Lu, two experienced professional volunteers passionate about improving the state of mental health and well being among Chinese youth, founded Growing Home in Beijing, China. The nonprofit organization has since evolved from...

A Better Community (ABC): Developing the NGO Infrastructure in China

Publication Date: May 8, 2018

ABC (A Better Community) provided pro-bono and paid management consulting services to nongovernment organizations in mainland China. Founded in 2008, ABC had quickly expanded from a voluntary group in Beijing with 7 volunteers in to a...

Seeking Skills, Finding Barriers: Vocational Training in Punjab (Sequel)

Publication Date: April 11, 2018

This is the sequel to Seeking Skills, Finding Barriers: Vocational Training in Punjab.In March 2012, a flagship vocational program in Punjab, Pakistan—the Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF)—hit a roadblock. After months of...

Seeking Skills, Finding Barriers: Vocational Training in Punjab

Publication Date: April 11, 2018

In March 2012, a flagship vocational program in Punjab, Pakistan—the Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF)—hit a roadblock. After months of planning, a pilot phase of training courses was launched in four of Punjab’s poorest...

Into Local Streets: Maryland National Guard and the Baltimore Riots Epilogue

Publication Date: March 19, 2018

On April 19, 2015, Freddie Gray, a young African American male, died while in the custody of the Baltimore Police. In response to his death, which occurred less than a year after a similar incident in Ferguson, Missouri, protestors mobilized...

Into Local Streets: Maryland National Guard and the Baltimore Riots

Publication Date: March 15, 2018

On April 19, 2015, Freddie Gray, a young African American male, died while in the custody of the Baltimore Police. In response to his death, which occurred less than a year after a similar incident in Ferguson, Missouri, protestors mobilized...

Negotiating Toward the Paris Accords: WWF & the Role of Forests in the 2015 Climate Agreement

Publication Date: March 8, 2018

In the lead-up to the United Nations’ 2015 climate summit in Paris, excitement ran high and so did anxiety. Negotiators hoped for a new international agreement, the first such effort since the disappointing collapse of negotiations six...

Mission in Flux: Michigan National Guard in Liberia Epilogue

Publication Date: February 1, 2018

In summer and fall of 2014, thousands of individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea contracted the Ebola virus. This outbreak of the deadly disease, which until then had been highly uncommon in West Africa, prompted a major (albeit...

Mission in Flux: Michigan National Guard in Liberia

Publication Date: February 1, 2018

In summer and fall of 2014, thousands of individuals in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea contracted the Ebola virus. This outbreak of the deadly disease, which until then had been highly uncommon in West Africa, prompted a major (albeit...

Cashing Out: The Future of Cash in Israel

Publication Date: January 29, 2018

It is impossible to predict the future, but this is a task policymakers are effectively expected to do when deciding how to deploy scarce resources to the benefit of future constituents. This case therefore looks at one tool in...

Cuna Más: Peru’s Early Childhood Program Struggles to Maintain Quality as It Scales Up

Publication Date: January 29, 2018

In 2012, amid much fanfare, Peru’s President Ollanta Humala launched an ambitious program on early childhood development called Cuna Más. The program, based on a successful home visiting intervention in Jamaica, was designed to...

Money & Morals: The Minimum Wage and the American South

Publication Date: December 27, 2017

In 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10. To the surprise of no one, Congressional Republicans blocked the move, as they had a similar proposal the year before...