Social Entrepreneurship Needs a New Funding Model
Impact investors pass on enterprises with potential because the deals are too small to justify the effort. A new model works through intermediaries to get entrepreneurs the capital they need.
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Four Lessons for Launching a Social Enterprise
Judging from our experience of creating employment for Pakistani women in household services, we would do many things differently if we had the chance.
How College Admissions Hurt Intergenerational Mobility
Changes to college admissions that improve the prospects of low-income families could boost economic equality.
Science’s Diversity Problem
Minority and women researchers have more novel ideas, but they are less likely to be adopted by the scientific mainstream.
Cooperation and Hierarchy
Organizational hierarchy can make or break cooperatives, depending on its effect on the collective psychological ownership of members.
Donor Recognition and Its Discontents
The reward of public recognition can motivate or inhibit donors, depending on their prior motives.
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Volunteer Nation
Elisabeth S. Clemens’ Civic Gifts demonstrates how voluntarism, long associated with locally based efforts, has been central to the project of building a strong nation-state.
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Equitable Public Health
In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
B Corps Grow Up
Until recently, most of the 3,422 companies (in 71 countries) that have become a B Corp have been small and medium-sized, but a growing number of large, established corporations are starting to undergo the certification process as well.
Fighting Epidemics, Old and New
Highlights from recent SSIR.org articles on racial justice, well-being, and the COVID-19 pandemic.