Education gains checked by challenges, new Pratham report shows
Are education efforts and outreach to children in rural India producing positive results? The answer is both encouraging and troubling, according to NGO Pratham's 10th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), released this week in New Delhi. "While more than 96...
Jordan’s queen leads event in praise of Injaz Al-Arab’s success
A recent celebration of INJAZ Al-Arab's efforts to stimulate entrepreneurial growth among Arab youth featured Jordan's Queen Rania, who has long been a key supporter of this organization, which was awarded a Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership in 2012. The Queen...
Kravis Prize internship fair offers a chance for impact next summer
What are you doing next summer? Since 2006, the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership has been building a special community among its recipients, whose premier organizations are dedicated to improving the lives of millions of people around the globe. That community also...
‘He is a pilot, she is cooking’: FAWE combats schoolbook gender bias
Educational materials in Kenyan classrooms still portray old stereotypes of "boys as heroes and girls as weak," says the executive director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). "The current methods of teaching carry a lot of gender bias to the boy,"...
Webinar Focuses on How Nonprofits Can Make Mission Matter
"Mission creep" is a pervasive and extremely debilitating problem that afflicts all too many nonprofit organizations. According to presenters Kim Starkey Jonker and William F. Meehan III, it is the No. 1 reason why nonprofits fail to achieve the impact for...