This story is presented by GovLoop. Can Non-Profits Run Cities? Story by Anna Clark Twitter Photography by Marvin Shaouni Published on Jul 9, 2012 Download PDF Sponsorship Policy Sue Mosey spends a lot of time telling stories. When I first met her, she breezed through two hours of narration about…

Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images The bureaucrats running Mumbai’s suburban rail network had a problem: Commuters and people living and working close to train stations were taking shortcuts across the tracks. This reckless behavior was causing 6,000 deaths in the metropolitan area every year. The…

Connections Browse Directory » People Organizations Tags Advertisement The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics hopes to change the way city government solves problems. Here's City Hall in 1930. Photo from phillyhistory.org There’s a new office in City Hall, but it doesn’t sound like the stodgy…

At first glance, Dolores Leonard's house looks like all the others on her block in Southwestern Detroit. It's a modest, one-story brick structure that sits behind a carefully manicured lawn, a place that Leonard and her husband have called home for over 50 years. What stands out is what's on the…

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There’s no denying that we are the newsfeed generation. Thanks to an onslaught of internet-based mobile technologies that we smugly refer to as social media, privacy is dead and no one seems to have a problem with it. Since the world is already on track for a grim future fueled by a crippling…

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Home » Why We Travel Travel Stories: In a classic essay, Pico Iyer explores the reasons we leave our beliefs and certainties at home to see the world with open eyes 04.27.09 | 11:47 AM ET iStockPhoto W e travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open…

Through his cheery on-air TV persona, Ryan Seacrest is firmly ensconced as America's face of lite entertainment. He calls himself as plain as vanilla ice cream. "Being the flavor of ice cream that goes with other flavors, that's my business," said the host, poolside at the Trump SoHo hotel in New…

Ever since he could remember, Ibrahim Boakye had a knack for understanding how things worked. There were things he could just do that no other kids– let alone adults– could understand. By the time he was five-years-old everyone had stopped questioning it, and neighbors were calling on him to fix…

Over Oscar weekend in late February, art dealer Larry Gagosian held a private lunch at the $15.5 million home he recently bought in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles. His glass-enclosed house had been decorated for the occasion by the artist Richard Prince, so its walls were lined with his…

There has been talk lately about 2011 being the year check-ins died . Haven’t we proven that “X is dead” articles mean that X is actually far from dead? As Dave Obasanjo put it , “You’ll know when RSS is dead when no one bothers writing ‘RSS is dead’ articles anymore.” The argument that check-ins…

Today I turned 27. For whatever reason, this feels like an important birthday. And it has been one helluva year, with huge changes (good and bad) that I’m still only now coming to terms with. While reflecting (and all that touchy-feely jazz), I realized something: Just how long I’ve been at this,…

A couple years ago three serial entrepreneurs got together to create a different kind of entrepreneurial venture: a nationwide community that would foster small-business ownership among minorities, and those from low-income areas of America's biggest cities. The result: 100 Urban Entrepreneurs , a…

Pointed toward his 18-acre compound in Marin County, Sean Parker rips through the night fog on the Golden Gate Bridge in a stealthy Audi S6 that masks a Lamborghini engine, one pale hand on the wheel, the other toggling through thousands of songs uploaded on the car’s sound system. Facebook’s former…

Technology isolates us. We end up with our faces glued to our computer or smartphone screens, and miss what’s going on in the world around us. It makes us antisocial and lazy. And if we’re not careful, it could take us on a one-way trip straight into Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. That’s what some…

I went to the mall to buy a T-shirt. I hadn’t been to the mall in a long time — it’s shocking how quickly you forget about them when you live in the city, how suburban they are. I took a depressing bus to get there, and then there I was, inside the Neshaminy Mall in rural Pennsylvania. …There’s a…

August 13, 2012 The money is a red herring I agree with Ilya that people are afraid of money , and it’s a paralyzing epidemic. He had a good point he was making, and then he went ahead and mucked it up with App.net as an example of an alternative, and that’s when I realized that even he missed his…

“Lisa, if I’ve learned anything, it’s that life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.”* “Sorry mom, the mob has spoken.” “…A little help?” “So I said to myself: what would God do in this situation?” “The goggles, they do nothing!” “And I’m not easily…

Let’s talk about you for a second. You, if you are reading this, are almost certainly a troubled young person. You have too much free time on your hands. You enjoy reading articles that make jokes about Twitter and articles about girls with nebulous emotional problems. This is not good. Sit up…

They say you’ve never really seen a Bruce Springsteen concert until you’ve seen one in Europe, so some friends and I threw financial sanity to the winds and went to follow him around Spain and France. In Madrid, for example, we were rewarded with a show that lasted 3 hours and 48 minutes, possibly…

Dear Mr. President, Your State of the Union address last night offered hope to a nation made weary by an economy stubbornly resistant to job growth. But I must take issue with your claim that “None of us can predict with any certainty…where the new jobs will come from.” Actually, we can. Brand new…

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The slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching for a new model of economic growth. I see the two movements of Technology Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship beginning to converge into a…

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It is my first time in Detroit, and I am riding shotgun down the main drag that is Woodward Avenue with a long-enough-to-keep-safe lens equipped camera in hand. Glide down one street akin to Park Avenue, make a sharp right turn and find yourself smack in the middle of an episode of The Wire . I was…