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How Large NGOs Are Using Data to Transform Themselves

Harvard Business Review

“Ninety percent of the Corps and service units [told us that they] were providing all of those basic services people need to survive in crisis,” Seiler explained. Moreover, 83% of clients who finished the program achieved their goals related to housing, employment, education, child care, etc.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

This measurable goal will help focus attention and galvanize stakeholders into action. I suggest that Obama announces now that Start-Up America will officially disband on December 31, 2015. Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas.