Social Innovations
Staying Vibrant and Curious
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John Gardner
Review
Social Entrepreneurship - Most Popular
Nonprofits
The Entrepreneurial Union
Freelance workers, whose numbers are growing, are left without health insurance, a retirement plan, or a work community. The Freelancers Union meets these needs.
Review
Social Innovations
The House That BRAC Built
Freedom from Want: The Remarkable Success Story of BRAC, the Global Grassroots Organization That's Winning the Fight Against Poverty by Ian Smillie
Social Innovations
Hedge Funds for Good
Uhuru Capital Management manages a conventional fund of hedge funds, but with an attention to social values.
Social Innovations
White House Digs Innovation
Social innovation now has an official place in the White House.
Social Innovations
Think Passionate
Investors screen for entrepreneurial passion when making funding decisions.
Social Innovations
Social Entrepreneurship Revisited
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most alluring terms on the problem-solving landscape today. The question is not whether social entrepreneurship is a term in
good currency, but what it actually means.
Podcast
Panel Discussion - Skoll World Forum: Replication and Scale
How can an innovative player in social entrepreneurship enable her exciting new idea to fulfill her dream of changing the world? This panel discussion of successful innovators examines the challenges of replicating and scaling ideas into massive realities of social change. Experts share their varied experience in identifying the important considerations that can grow a successful neighborhood social program into a global social venture.
Nonprofits
SkollFest Wraps
This blog is the last of Marcia Stepanek's coverage of the Skoll World Forum 2009 at Oxford University.