Innovating Public Systems
With these seven levers, social entrepreneurs can foster change in everything from affordable housing to child welfare to poverty alleviation.
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Hear, Hear for Profits
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs by Muhammad Yunus
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Survival of the Deviant
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin
Nonprofits Pipe Up
Chris Hughes, Facebook’s cofounder, has created a social media platform called Jumo designed specifically for nonprofits.
Put at Least One Egg in Another Basket
For-profit companies preach and employ diversification—and it would behoove nonprofits to have diverse revenue portfolios, as well.
What Makes Civic Associations Work
What makes a civic association effective is not so much the resources and opportunities available to it, but good leaders.
Unsoiled Reputations
Family-owned firms pollute less than nonfamily firms; and that is due to the family values that these firms were founded upon.
Receiving Aid, Receiving Respect
How people experience government programs directly affects their levels of civic engagement.
The Value of Free
People are more likely to use products that they pay for, but when it comes to malaria-preventing bed nets in Africa, the opposite holds true.