Social Innovations
Root Solutions
Nonprofit lender Root Capital connects rural farmers and artisans with the corporations that crave their products.
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Social Innovations
The New Frontier
LeapFrog Investments will bring better insurance to more of the world's poor.
Creating Social Value
The idea that social entrepreneurs create something called social value—good works that go above and beyond what traditional entrepreneurs and businesses deliver—is a dearly held tenet of the social change movement. But what exactly is social value, and how do social entrepreneurs go about creating it?
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Philanthropy
The Art of Grantmaking
Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy by Paul Brest and Hal Harvey
Nonprofits
It Is a Recession, and It Could Be a Restructuring
The opportunity has come to reframe, rethink, reset, and rebuild some of the things we take most for granted.
Nonprofits
Dissecting the Network Approach
Having an effective online presence goes beyond simply having a Web site.
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Brian Lehnen, Scott Morgan, Anne Marie Burgoyne - Year One in the Life of a Nonprofit Start-up
What fuels the creation of a nonprofit organization? In this panel discussion, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, panelists talk about their experiences founding an education-related nonprofit in the United States and a microenterprise in Africa. They explore how they came up with the ideas for their enterprises, how they focused and manifested those ideas, and what smart and not-so-smart choices they made along the way. A portfolio manager adds her insights on what elements make a startup appealing to potential funders.
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The Encore Careers Summit - Journeying Through Multiple Careers
The notion of "golden years" of endless leisure is giving way to a new form of practical idealism: real jobs tackling real problems and making real impact. The Encore Careers campaign aims to engage millions of baby boomers in careers later in life, producing a windfall of human talent to solve society's greatest problems. In this 2008 Encore Careers Summit panel discussion sponsored by the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, panelists share their "encore" journeys, and how they've had the energy to stay professionally vital and active.
Social Innovations
Selling vs. Selling Out
The author warns that selling a company or organization should not mean selling out, as social missions will prove to contribute to long-term success.