Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Among Youth
Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, identifies key skills of change makers and lays out a plan to teach these skills around the world.
Podcast
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Nonprofits
Environmental Sustainability with World Water
Experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector.
Working with Stories
When embracing the benefits of working with stories, it’s important to keep two things in mind: engage empathy and embrace emergence.
Explaining the Long-term Single Bottom Line
Publicly owned companies will be most effective in creating social benefit when they plan for a long time horizon and focus on a single bottom line.
Fair Trade: A Model for Sustainable Development
Fair Trade is a viable vehicle for producers to strengthen their positions and take more control over their lives.
Global Issues
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Less Epistemology, More Evolution
An analysis of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s book Poor Economics.
Large Foundations Dropping the Ball on Government Programs
The Pay For Success program and Social Innovation Fund are examples of the government turning to philanthropy for help selecting the effective programs.
Podcast
Social Innovations
Grassroots Philanthropy in Schools
Founder of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity helping students in need, Charles Best talks about how he started the organization and what some of its challenges have been along the way.
How Do You Create a New Normal? A Three-Part Path to Scale
At Social Impact Exchange, a forum dedicated to scaling high-impact social programs, investors wanted to know “How will your idea achieve scale?”