Skoll 2011 Interview: John Marks
Interview with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, a nonprofit conflict-resolution organization, and head of Common Ground Productions
Social Entrepreneurship - Articles
Innovative ideas for social entrepreneurs who tackle society’s problems (more)
Impact Market Failure
It comes down to this: We’re all operating in a dysfunctional market for impact.
A New Type of Hybrid
Social entrepreneurs have taken the hybrid model to a new level, crafting it into a single structure that can operate as both a for-profit and a nonprofit.
Skoll World Forum: Large Scale Social Change
The eighth year of the Skoll World Forum showed incredible dedication to accelerating entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing social issues.
Better Vision for the Poor
Several social enterprises are attempting to provide eyeglasses to the 500 million to 1 billion poor people who need them. Why haven’t any of the organizations succeeded on a large scale?
Turning a Profit by Helping the Poor
Politically radical social workers didn’t expect to be working in a bank any more than white-collar bankers expected to be holding meetings in a crowded public market.
Review
Who Are the Change Makers?
Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Paul C. Light
A Toniic for Start-Ups
Impact Investors at Toniic aim to create an ecosystem for investing in social entrepreneurs that mirrors the Silicon Valley way of doing deals.
Beyond the Purple Berry
Sambazon’s commitment to social entrepreneurship creates a fair market for farmers in the Amazon
Review
When Good Is Just Not Good Enough
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill Shore