Earlier this year, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra ran out of money. Its endowment, which peaked at $6 million in the late 1990s, reached a zero balance in April. Can the organization innovate its way back into the black?  

Peer Power Foundation, a private nonprofit organization, is taking a new approach to boosting student achievement by paying successful students to tutor their classmates and incentivizing academic improvement. Now in eight area schools, the program pulls the principles of free market economics into the classroom while also building fun, student-driven learning environments.